Title: Influence of Air–Sea Coupling on Madden–Julian Oscillation (MJO) Evolution
Abstract:T he Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) is an eastward-moving disturbance of clouds, rainfall, winds, and pressure that traverses the globe in the tropics with a period in the range of 30-80 days.The MJO...T he Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) is an eastward-moving disturbance of clouds, rainfall, winds, and pressure that traverses the globe in the tropics with a period in the range of 30-80 days.The MJO is the dominant mode of intraseasonal variability in the tropical Indo-Pacific warm pool.It modulates the timing and strength of monsoons and influences high-impact weather events such as tropical cyclones, floods, and drought in the Indo-Pacific region.The MJO offers the prospect of forecasting tropical rainfall with a lead time of a couple of weeks; however, current state-of-the-art weather forecasting models have systematic biases and cannot reproduce the MJO well.Read More