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Climate Dynamics Special Issue

Listing of Articles

  • The Madden-Julian Oscillation in the Nested Regional Climate Model
    Author: Julie M. Caron.
    [Submitted Article (.pdf)]
  • The Role of Wave Energy Accumulation in Tropical Cyclone Genesis over the Tropical North Atlantic
    Authors: James Done, Greg Holland, Asuka Suzuki-Parker and Peter J. Webster.
    [Submitted Article (.pdf)]
  • Evaluation of a Tropical Channel Modeling Framework for the Study of Low Latitude Climate
    Authors: James J. Hack, John E. Truesdale, Julie M Caron.
  • The Mean Tropical Climate of the Nested Regional Climate Model
    Authors: William D. Collins, ...
  • Tropical Rain-Rate Spectral Structures, Modeled and Observed
    Authors: Hsiao-ming Hsu, Joseph J. Tribbia and Mitchell W. Moncrieff.
    [Abstract]
  • A Comparison of Ocean Surface Winds between Satellite Observations and Model Simulations
    Authors: Hsiao-ming Hsu, William G. Large and Joseph J. Tribbia.
    [Abstract]
  • Simulations of the precipitation using WRF and comparisons with satellite observations and CAM
    Authors: Aditya Murthi, Kenneth P. Bowman, and L. Ruby Leung.
    [Abstract]
  • The Role of the Mean State on the Initiation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation
    Authors: Pallav Ray, Chidong Zhang, Mitchell W. Moncrieff, Jim Dudhia, Julie M. Caron, L. Ruby Leung and Cindy Bruyere.
    [Submitted Article (.pdf)]
  • Convectively-Coupled Kelvin and Easterly Waves in a Nested Regional Climate Model
    Authors: Stefan N. Tulich and George N. Kiladis.
    [Submitted Article (.pdf)]
  • Variations in the three dimensional structure of the tropical response to ENSO: Comparison among Nested Regional Climate and Community Atmosphere Models
    Authors: James W. Hurrell, Kevin E. Trenberth, and Adam S. Phillips.

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