Factors controlling the interannual variations of MJO intensity

Factors controlling variations in river sediment loads

Sediment transfer from continents to oceans via rivers is one of the important processes regulating river-bank stabilization, soil formation, biogeochemical cycling of elements, crust evolution and many other earth-related processes. Due to changes in continental positions during the geologic past, water flow and sediment loads in rivers have also shown variations during different time periods....

Nonlinear Dynamics and Regional Variations in the MJO Skeleton

A minimal, nonlinear oscillator model is analyzed for the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) ‘‘skeleton’’ (i.e., its fundamental features on intraseasonal/planetary scales), which includes the following: (i) a slow eastward phase speed of roughly 5 m s, (ii) a peculiar dispersion relation with dv/dk ’ 0, and (iii) a horizontal quadrupole vortex structure. Originally proposed in recent work by the ...

INTERANNUAL VARIATIONS OF TROPICAL PRECIPITATION PATTERNS by

Seasonal and annual precipitation anomalies, normalized with respect to the standard deviations are computed for stations between 30*S and 30N. It is established that the annual anomalies are normally distributed. Spatially averaged anomalies are computed for various regions and their representativeness confirmed. Correlations between the annual average normalized anomalies of the various regio...

Interannual variations of total ozone and temperature

Interannual variation patterns of total ozone and temperature in observations and model simulations W. Steinbrecht, B. Haßler, C. Brühl, M. Dameris, M. A. Giorgetta, V. Grewe, E. Manzini, S. Matthes, C. Schnadt, B. Steil, and P. Winkler Meteorologisches Observatorium Hohenpeißenberg, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Hohenpeißenberg, Germany Chemie der Atmosphäre, Max Planck Institut für Chemie, Mainz, G...

Interannual and Intraseasonal Variations of the Available Solar Radiation