Hayashi, Y., and D. G. Golder, 1986: Tropical intraseasonal oscillations appearing in a GFDL general circulation model and FGGE Data. Part I: Phase
propagation. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 43 (24), 3058-3067.
Abstract: Space-time spectrum and filter analyses are made of the tropical intraseasonal
oscillations in the northern summer appearing in a GFDL 30-wavenumber spectral
general circulation model and the FGGE IIIb data.
The model exhibits major and minor wavenumber 1 spectral peaks in the equatorial
zonal velocity at eastward-moving periods of 40-50 and 25-30 days in agreement
with the FGGE data. Both the 40-50 and 25-30 day oscillations are associated
with a similar spatial structure. In particular, both of these oscillations
exhibit a phase reversal between the 200 and 800 mb zonal velocities. They
propagate eastward with a node near the dateline and an antinode in the
western hemisphere. Their wave patterns take the form of an eastward-moving
Kelvin mode near the equator and an eastward-moving Rossby mode away from
the equator.
Both spectral peaks are also detectable in the model's precipitation, corresponding
to those in the observed outgoing longwave radiation. The 40-50 and 25-30
day precipitation oscillations are in phase with the vertical velocity and
propagate northeastward with major and minor antinodes in the eastern and
western hemispheres, respectively.
The present results demonstrate that the intraseasonal oscillations can
be simulated in a model without air-sea interactions and cloud-radiation
feedbacks.