Main Goals

Working in concert with the WCRP-WWRP/WGNE MJO Task Force, effort will be focused on research, model evaluation and predictability/prediction skill studies on the interactions between the Maritime Continent (MC) and the MJO.  

This focus is motivated by the perception that the MC represents a natural predictability barrier for the MJO that is exacerbated by limited understanding of the MC as a natural predictability barrier and also to a great extent by our limitations in model representations of the MJO and MC interactions.  

The subproject can exploit a number of modeling and observational resources, namely:

• S2S database
• GASS-YOTC multi-model simulation database.
• Intraseasonal Variability Hindcast Experiment