Propagating versus Nonpropagating Madden-Julian Oscillation Events SCIE SCOPUS

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Title
Propagating versus Nonpropagating Madden-Julian Oscillation Events
Author(s)
Kim, Daehyun; Kug, Jong-Seong; Sobel, Adam H.
Alternative Author(s)
국종성
Publication Year
2014-01
Abstract
Basinwide convective anomalies over the Indian Ocean (IO) associated with the Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) sometimes propagate eastward and reach the west Pacific (WP), but sometimes do not. Long-term observations and reanalysis products are used to investigate the difference between the propagating and nonpropagating MJO events. IO convection onset events associated with the MJO are grouped into three categories based on the strengths of the simultaneous dry anomalies over the eastern Maritime Continent and WP. The IO convection anomaly preferentially makes eastward propagation and reaches the WP when the dry anomaly is stronger.Analysis of the column-integrated moist static energy (MSE) budget shows that horizontal advection moistens the atmosphere to the east of the positive MSE anomaly associated with the active convection over the IO and is of sufficient magnitude to explain the eastward propagation of the positive MSE anomaly. Interpretation is complicated, however, by lack of closure in the MSE budget. A residual term, of smaller but comparable magnitude to the horizontal advection, also moistens the column to the east of the positive MSE anomaly. Nonetheless, the authors decompose the horizontal advection term into contributions from different scales and find that a dominant contribution is from free-tropospheric meridional advection by the intraseasonal time scale wind anomalies. The positive meridional advection in between the convective and dry anomalies is induced by the anomalous poleward flow, which is interpreted as part of the Rossby wave response to the dry anomaly. The poleward flow advects the climatological MSE, which peaks at the equator, and moistens to the east of IO convective anomaly.
ISSN
0894-8755
URI
https://sciwatch.kiost.ac.kr/handle/2020.kiost/2921
DOI
10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00084.1
Bibliographic Citation
JOURNAL OF CLIMATE, v.27, no.1, pp.111 - 125, 2014
Publisher
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
Subject
TEMPERATURE-GRADIENT APPROXIMATION; EQUATORIAL BETA-PLANE; STATIC ENERGY BUDGET; LARGE-SCALE MODES; INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATIONS; TROPICAL CIRCULATION; EASTWARD PROPAGATION; CLIMATE MODELS; MOISTURE MODE; KELVIN WAVE
Keywords
Madden-Julian oscillation; Intraseasonal variability; Tropical variability
Type
Article
Language
English
Document Type
Article
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