Abstract: In order to understand the northeasterly monsoon surges and associated tropical motions over Southeast Asia during northern winter, the dynamic response of the tropical atmosphere to midlatitude pressure surges is studied ...

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: Linear analyses of wave-CISK models often lead to the conclusion that the mechanism does not explain the scale selection of planetary-scale tropical motions. In particular, Kelvin or gravity wave-CISK tends to prefer ...

Abstract: he Asian monsoon is a planetary-scale circulation system powered by the release of latent heat, but important features of deep convection and rainfall distribution cannot be adequately represented by the large-scale patterns. ...