Observed Relationships between Oceanic Kelvin Waves and Atmospheric Forcing From: Journal of Climate | Date: October 15, 2006| Author: Kiladis, George N; Roundy, Paul E | Copyright American Meteorological Society Oct 15, 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

ABSTRACT

The Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) has been implicated as a major source of the wind stress variability that generates basin-scale Kelvin waves in the equatorial Pacific. One source of debate concerning this relationship is the apparent difference in the frequencies of the two processes.

This work utilizes data from the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) array of moored buoys along with outgoing longwave radiation data to show by means of a multiple linear regression mode...

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