Madden-Julian oscillation: bridging weather and climate: as a prime example of intraseasonal variability, the Madden-Julian Oscillation affects--and is pivotal to predicting--both weather and climate

The Madden-Julian oscillation exerts broad influences on global weather and climate as its center of convection moves from the tropical Indian Ocean into the Pacific. Weather events under the influence of the MJO include precipitation, surface temperature, tropical cyclones, tornadoes, flood, wildfi...

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Published in:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 2013-12, Vol.94 (12), p.1849
Main Author: Zhang, Chidong
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Atmospheric circulation
Madden-Julian oscillation
Weather forecasting
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Summary:The Madden-Julian oscillation exerts broad influences on global weather and climate as its center of convection moves from the tropical Indian Ocean into the Pacific. Weather events under the influence of the MJO include precipitation, surface temperature, tropical cyclones, tornadoes, flood, wildfire, and lightning, among others. Several climate phenomena are also affected by the MJO. They are the monsoons, E1 Nino-Southern Oscillation, the North Atlantic Oscillation, the Pacific and North American pattern, the Arctic and Antarctic Oscillations or northern and southern annual modes, the Indian Ocean dipole, the Wyrtki jets, and the Indonesian Through-flow. This article provides a brief summary of the connections between the MJO and these weather and climate phenomena. These connections demonstrate the critical role of the MJO in the weather-climate continuum and its prediction.
ISSN:0003-0007
1520-0477
DOI:10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00026.1