Abstract: Coupling between large-scale atmospheric and oceanic equatorial Kelvin waves is shown to be relevant in the climatic time scale related to equatorial ocean/atmosphere processes. The present analyses show that the inclusion ...

Abstract: In this paper, we present the elements of a theory of the long-term variability of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Three basic processes, i.e., unstable air-sea interaction, the seasonal variation and stochasfic ...

Abstract: Day-today convective activity in the equatorial regions (10°N?10°S and 90?180°E) during December 1974 and January 1975 was estimated from NOAA satellite visible imageries using simple visual techniques. The daily convective ...

Abstract: A study of the seasonal variation of the climatic states of the atmosphere and the ocean is made using a coupled atmosphere-ocean model. The ?domain-averaged? nature of the model enables the inclusion of effects due to ...

Abstract: The dynamics of equatorially forced climate teleconnections on the sphere is studied using quasi-geostrophic wave theory and numerical models. Using the concept of a refractive index for meridional propagation of energy, ...

Abstract: The linearized shallow-water equatorial ?-plane equation was solved for a subset of approximate solutions applicable to thermally driven large-scale tropical circulation. In particular, the heat-induced monsoon circulations ...

Abstract: An improved treatment of diabatic heating due to moist convection is introduced into the dynamical model used in Part I of this paper to further investigate the origin of intraseasonal oscillations in the tropics. The ...

Abstract: Intraseasonal and interannual variations of tropical convection are studied using 12 years of NOAA outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) data. The spatial patterns of OLR variance in the 1?5 day, 20?70 day and longer-than-180 ...

Abstract: Observations concerning the summer and winter monsoons of East Asia and their global associations are reviewed. The seasonal mean structure, transient variation, including intraseasonal to interannual, and synoptic to ...

Abstract: As a sequel to Part I of this study, lagged relationships in atmospheric teleconnections associated with outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) are investigated using Lagged Cross Correlations (LCC). The feasibility of extratropical ...