Monday, 15 October 2001
Tropical precipitable water climatology for equatorial waves
Anomalies of the NASA water vapor project (NVAP) total
column precipitable water (PW) data are analyzed to
study the impacts of equatorial waves on PW. Spectra
are given for the northern and southern hemispheres
separately, covering the region from 15 N to 15 S
latitude. Spectra of equatorially symmetric and
antisymmetric decompositions are also given. Spectra
are diagramed according to convectively coupled
equatorial wave types and data are Fourier filtered
accordingly to produce variance climatology maps without
using equatorial symmetry constraints. Results reveal
that the northern hemisphere dominates most signals, with the main exception being the 40-60 day oscillation.
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