Since its discovery in the early 1970s, the crucial role of the Madden‐Julian Oscillation
(MJO) in the global hydrological cycle and its tremendous influence on high‐impact climate …

Seasonal climate forecasts occupy an intermediate zone between weather forecasting and
climate projections. They share with the numerical weather prediction the difficulty of …

The NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) was completed for the 31-yr period
from 1979 to 2009, in January 2010. The CFSR was designed and executed as a global …

Abstract The Madden‐Julian oscillation (MJO) is a convectively coupled 30–70 day
(intraseasonal) tropical atmospheric mode that drives variations in global weather but which …

Background Rainfall variability exceedingly affects agriculture in Ethiopia, particularly in the
eastern region where rainfall is relatively scarce. Hence, understanding the spatiotemporal …

As the word``monsoon''(derived from an Arabic word meaning seasons) indicates, the South
Asian (SA) summer monsoon is part of an annually reversing wind system (Figure 2.1 (b …

Abstract The Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) represents a primary source of predictability
on the intraseasonal time scales and its influence extends from seasonal variations to …

The impacts of climate change and climate variability on human life have led the scientific
community to monitor the behavior of weather and climate variables at different spatial and …

More accurate forecasts of climate conditions over time periods of weeks to a few years
could help people plan agricultural activities, mitigate drought, and manage energy …

In April of 2002, a workshop was held that brought together participants with a wide range of
geophysical expertise to focus on the problem of sub-seasonal predictability (Schubert et al …