Other Factors: MJO Index
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Other Factors: MJO Index Other Factors: MJO Index Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO): A 40- to 60-day period of alternately strong or weak trade winds that normally blow west. It is named after Roland Madden and Paul Julian, two scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research who in 1971 were studying wind patterns in the tropical Pacific. For unknown reasons, these tropical winds sometimes weaken, and the Sun-warmed pulse of ocean water that they usually cause to drift west drifts east. As this pulse of warm water, called a Kelvin wave, moves east- from the coast of Africa across the Indian and Pacific Oceans-it carries changed air patterns above it.
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Other Factors: MJO IndexOther Factors: MJO Index
Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO): A 40- to 60-day period of alternately strong or weak trade winds that normally blow west. It is named after Roland Madden and Paul Julian,
two scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research who in 1971 were studying wind patterns in the
tropical Pacific. For unknown reasons, these tropical winds sometimes weaken, and the Sun-warmed pulse of ocean
water that they usually cause to drift west drifts east. As this pulse of warm water, called a Kelvin wave, moves east-from the coast of Africa across the Indian and Pacific Oceans-it
carries changed air patterns above it.
MJO Data LinksMJO Data Links
Current MJO Data and Archives (CPC)Archived MJO (Historical Images)
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When the wave crashes into South America, the water stops, but the air pattern continues over land northeastward,
into the Caribbean atmosphere and across the Atlantic Ocean. Before this cycle is complete, another pulse has already started in the Indian Ocean. Scientists are still
studying the MJO. Most agree, however, that when the MJO cycle speeds up and warm Kelvin waves pile up in the Pacific
Ocean, we have the start of an El Niño.The MJO usually brings flooding rains (also known as
the "Pineapple Express") to the Pacific Northwest and California. In an active hurricane season on the East Coast, it can mean several hurricanes within a few weeks, followed by
a long spell with no hurricanes.MJO Tutorial Site
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For the East coast of the United States, the impact of the MJO during the winter months is uncertain. We know the MJO
goes through phases, 8 to be exact.
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Although much is uncertain, phases 8 and 1 of the MJO
appear to be the most favorable for large scale East coast
snowstorms due to the above heights (high pressures) over and
near Greenland which in turn impacts the
negative NAO.
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According to HM (Eastern US Weather Forum), MJO does not have to be in Phase 8
all the time to get SECS (Significant East Coast Snowstorms). It
is one tool to the general equation. It is
not until phase 4-7 when the MJO
alignment favors a ridge back east.
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500mb Height Anomalies for each MJO phase for every month
Other Factors: MJO Index (Thanks to NWJ)
Other Factors: MJO Index (Thanks to NWJ)
Phase 4 (March 2007)Phase 4 (March 2007)
MJO Phase (Blizzard of 2006)MJO Phase (Blizzard of 2006)
