On the predictability of the extreme drought in East Africa during the short rains season

T Doi, SK Behera, T Yamagata - Geophysical Research Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Many parts of East Africa experienced extremely dry conditions during the short
rains season of October–December 2021. It was predicted a few months before by the …

MJO initiation triggered by amplification of upper‐tropospheric dry mixed Rossby‐gravity waves

D Takasuka, T Kohyama, H Miura… - Geophysical Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A possibly important dynamical process for the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) convective
initiation is proposed. An MJO event during the “CINDY2011” field campaign is triggered by …

Diversity of MJO initiation regions and processes

T Wang, T Li - Journal of Climate, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
The diversity of the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) initiation (ie, initial onset of active
convection before moving eastward) regions was explored using a clustering method …