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Main Goals
Working in concert with the WCRP-WWRP/WGNE MJO Task Force, effort will be focused on research, model evaluation and predictability/prediction skill studies on the interactions between the Maritime Continent (MC) and the MJO, including an effort to improve local MC forecast skill and resources.
This focus is motivated by the perception that the MC represents a natural predictability barrier for the MJO that is exacerbated by limited understanding of the MC as a natural predictability barrier and also to a great extent by our limitations in model representations of the MJO and MC interactions.
The subproject will exploit a number of modeling and observational resources, namely:
- Dynamics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (DYNAMO)
- Year of Maritime Continent - Jamstec Website - BMKG Website
- Office of Naval Research PISTON Field Campaign (website TBS)
Please refer to the project white paper for more details on motivation, objectives and proposed tasks.
Co-Organizers
Duane Waliser (Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech, USA)
Steve Woolnough (University of Reading/National Centre for Atmospheric Science, UK)
Eric Maloney (Colorado State University, USA)
June-Yi Lee (Pusan National University, S. Korea)
Sample of Funded Research Activities Utilizing S2S Database | (please email co-organizers with additions) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Title | PI, Co-Is, Collaborators | Point of Contact Email | Sponsor | Period of Performance |
| Leveraging the MJO for Multi-Week Predictions: Improving Understanding of MJO - Maritime Continent Interactions | Waliser (JPL), Jiang (UCLA), Baronowski (UCLA) Flatau (NRL), Ridout (NRL) | duane.waliser@jpl.nassa.gov | ONR PISTON | June 2016-May 2018 |
| Assessing Oceanic Predictability Sources for MJO Propagation | DeMott (CSU), Klingaman (U. Reading) | demott@atmos.colostate.edu | NOAA MAPP | July 2016 - June 2019 |
| Forecasting North Pacific Blocking and Atmospheric River Probabilities: Sensitivity to Model Physics and the MJO | Barnes, Maloney (CSU) | eabarnes@atmos.colostate.edu | NOAA MAPP | July 2016 - June 2019 |
| Madden Julian Oscillation - the Maritime Continent barrier and seamless verification. | Wang, Sobel, Tippett (Columbia University) | sw2526@columbia.edu | NOAA MAPP | July 2016 - June 2019 |
Contributions
Please use the Wiki space below to add relevant plans for research activities that may contribute to the MC-MJO project.
I would like to share with you the paper on MJO, written by Masanori Yamasaki, who is famous for typhoon simulation. The paper is available on line at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/amete/2011/296914/ref/
He discussed the importance of the SST over the warm pool region in aqua planet model configuration, using his 20 km resolution meso-convective system model. If the SST is not warm, the transient (dry Kelvin wave) component is dominant, but the SST is warm enough over the warm pool, the stationary component is dominant, with clear multi-scale convection activities.
The S2S project and MJO subproject encourages the community to describe their research activities and plans, as well as observations and modeling resources, that might have relevance to the various subprojects - in this case related to MJO - MC interactions. The next entry is an example of this sort of expression of interest.