Abstract: The diversity of the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) initiation (i.e., initial onset of active convection before moving eastward) regions was explored using a clustering method. Regions favorable for MJO initiations are ...

Abstract: Despite an insignificant linear relation between the boreal summer equatorial Atlantic sea surface temperature anomaly (EA SSTA) and preceding winter El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), an EA warming event was found to ...

Abstract: The Advanced version of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF-ARW) Model is used to investigate the influence of an easterly wave (EW) on the genesis of Typhoon Hagupit (2008) in the western North Pacific. Observational ...

Abstract: While enhanced rainbands progressed northward in East Asia from June to August during the regular El Niño decaying summer, strengthened rainbands were only observed in the earlier summer and disappeared in August in the ...