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Intraseasonal anomalies of moist deep convection in the tropics evolve together with the global atmospheric circulation. Some of the coherence between tropical convection and extratropical weather is a consequence of redistribution of mass by convection, which is associated with broad-scale overturning circulations, global and regional cycles of atmospheric angular momentum (Anderson and Rosen, 1983; Weickmann and Sardeshmukh, 1994; Weickmann and Berry, 2009), and Rossby wavetrains that extend eastward and poleward across the midlatitudes (Sardeshmukh and Hoskins, 1988; Jin and Hoskins, 1995; Bladeé and Hartmann, 1995).
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Lau, W.K.M., Waliser, D.E., Roundy, P.E. (2012). Tropical–extratropical interactions. In: Intraseasonal Variability in the Atmosphere-Ocean Climate System. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13914-7_14
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