Wednesday, 24 May 2000
A consistently applied objective definition has been used to
identify all westerly wind bursts (WWBs) during the 1980's. This presentation
will use an outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) dataset that has been filtered
to extract the signal associated with the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) to
address the issue of the relationship between the synoptic-scale WWBs and the
larger-scale MJO. The analysis may be extended into the 1990's, and will
also include a discussion of the interannual variability of WWBs.
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