A unified moisture mode framework for seasonality of the Madden-Julian oscillation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2018, Pages 4215-4224

  Jiang, Xianan ^a,b   Adames, ángel F ^c   Zhao, Ming ^c   Waliser, Duane ^b   Maloney, Eric ^d  

^a Los Angeles   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Intraseasonal variability; Monsoons

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE MODELS; MOISTURE; TROPOSPHERE;

CLIMATOLOGICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; EASTWARD PROPAGATION; HORIZONTAL ADVECTION; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; MONSOONS; SEASONAL VARIATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CLIMATE MODELING; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; EQUATORIAL WAVE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MONSOON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY;

ASIA;

EID: 85047072627     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0671.1     Document Type: Article

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