Madden-Julian Oscillation

Madden-Julian Oscillation Analysis from NCAR

This module computes many of the diagnostics described by the WGNE MJO Task Force and developed by Dennis Shea for observational data. Using daily precipitation, outgoing longwave radiation, zonal wind at 850 and 200 hPa and meridional wind at 200 hPa, the module computes anomalies, bandpass-filters for the 20-100 day period, calculates the MJO Index as defined as the running variance over the bandpass filtered data, performs an EOF analysis, and calculates lag cross-correlations, wave-number frequency spectra and composite life cycles of MJO events.

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v3.LR.amip_0101
NCEP Reanalysis

EOF analysis

EOF analysis 30S to 30N (lat-lon map, time series)
pr summer v3.LR.amip_0101 pr summer v3.LR.amip_0101
pr summer TRMM pr summer TRMM
pr winter v3.LR.amip_0101 pr winter v3.LR.amip_0101
pr winter TRMM pr winter TRMM
rlut summer v3.LR.amip_0101 rlut summer v3.LR.amip_0101
rlut summer ERA rlut summer ERA
rlut winter v3.LR.amip_0101 rlut winter v3.LR.amip_0101
rlut winter ERA rlut winter ERA
u850 summer v3.LR.amip_0101 u850 summer v3.LR.amip_0101
u850 summer ERA u850 summer ERA
u850 winter v3.LR.amip_0101 u850 winter v3.LR.amip_0101
u850 winter ERA u850 winter ERA
u200 summer v3.LR.amip_0101 u200 summer v3.LR.amip_0101
u200 summer ERA u200 summer ERA
u200 winter v3.LR.amip_0101 u200 winter v3.LR.amip_0101
u200 winter ERA u200 winter ERA
v200 summer v3.LR.amip_0101 v200 summer v3.LR.amip_0101
v200 summer ERA v200 summer ERA
v200 winter v3.LR.amip_0101 v200 winter v3.LR.amip_0101
v200 winter ERA v200 winter ERA

lag-cross-correlations

The climatological cross correlation plots
lag lat lon summer v3.LR.amip_0101 lag lat lon summer ERA
lag lat lon winter v3.LR.amip_0101 lag lat lon winter ERA
lag lat lon annual v3.LR.amip_0101 lag lat lon annual ERA

wavenumber - frequency spectra

The wavenumber - frequency spectra plots (v3.LR.amip_0101 vs obs)
pr summer v3.LR.amip_0101 pr summer TRMM
pr winter v3.LR.amip_0101 pr winter TRMM
rlut summer v3.LR.amip_0101 rlut summer ERA
rlut winter v3.LR.amip_0101 rlut winter ERA
u850 summer v3.LR.amip_0101 u850 summer ERA
u850 winter v3.LR.amip_0101 u850 winter ERA
v850 summer v3.LR.amip_0101 v850 summer ERA
v850 winter v3.LR.amip_0101 v850 winter ERA
u200 summer v3.LR.amip_0101 u200 summer ERA
u200 winter v3.LR.amip_0101 u200 winter ERA
v200 summer v3.LR.amip_0101 v200 summer ERA
v200 winter v3.LR.amip_0101 v200 winter ERA

composite life cycles

The composite life cycles (v3.LR.amip_0101 vs obs)
summer v3.LR.amip_0101 summer v3.LR.amip_0101 summer ERA
winter v3.LR.amip_0101 winter v3.LR.amip_0101 winter ERA