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Abstract

The authors argue that interactive feedbacks involving surface moist enthalpy fluxes, both turbulent and radiative, are important to the dynamics of tropical intraseasonal variability. Evidence in favor of this hypothesis includes the observed spatial distribution of intraseasonal variance in precipitation and outgoing longwave radiation, the observed relationship between intraseasonal latent heat flux and precipitation anomalies in regions where intraseasonal variability is strong, and sensitivity experiments performed with a small number of general circulation and idealized models. The authors argue that it would be useful to assess the importance of surface fluxes to intraseasonal variability in a larger number of comprehensive numerical models.

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Title
Surface Fluxes and Tropical Intraseasonal Variability: a Reassessment
Author
Sobel, Adam H 1 ; Maloney, Eric D 2 ; Bellon, Gilles 3 ; Frierson, Dargan M 4 

 Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA 
 Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA 
 Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques, Toulouse, France 
 Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, Washington, USA 
Publication year
2010
Publication date
Jan 2010
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
e-ISSN
19422466
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2301548967
Copyright
© 2010. This work is published under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.