Large-scale precipitation tracking and the MJO over the Maritime Continent and Indo-Pacific warm pool

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 121, Issue 15, 2016, Pages 8755-8776

  Kerns, Brandon W ^a   Chen, Shuyi S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO; LA NINA; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MARITIME BOUNDARY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REAL TIME; SEASONAL VARIATION; TRACKING; WARM POOL;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84980338851     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JD024661     Document Type: Article

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