Winter mean lower tropospheric moisture over the Maritime Continent as a climate model diagnostic metric for the propagation of the Madden-Julian oscillation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 2588-2596

  Gonzalez, Alex O ^a,b   Jiang, Xianan ^a,b  

^a Los Angeles   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate models; general circulation models; low level moisture; Madden Julian oscillation; Maritime Continent

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; CLIMATOLOGY; MOISTURE; TROPOSPHERE;

EASTWARD PROPAGATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HORIZONTAL ADVECTION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MARITIME CONTINENT; MOIST STATIC ENERGY; MOISTURE ADVECTION; TROPOSPHERIC MOISTURE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ADVECTION; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE; STATIC RESPONSE; TROPOSPHERE; WINTER;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 85015239584     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL072430     Document Type: Article

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