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A Madden-Julian Oscillation event realistically simulated by a global cloud-resolving model [1]

A Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) is a massive weather event consisting of deep convection coupled with atmospheric circulation, moving slowly eastward over the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Despite its enormous influence on many weather and climate systems worldwide, it has proven very difficult to simulate an MJO because of assumptions about cumulus clouds in global meteorological models.

Publication Date: 
14/12/2007
Hiroaki Miura [2], Masaki Satoh [3], Tomoe Nasuno & et al [4]
Science [5]
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Indian Ocean [6], Atmosphere And Ozone Layer [7], Atmosphere [8], Atmosphere Science [9], Monsoons [10], Climate Change [11], Cyclones [12], Rainfall Pattern [13]
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