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Propagating and Standing Components of the Intraseasonal Oscillation in Tropical Convection

Propagating and Standing Components of the Intraseasonal Oscillation in Tropical Convection Two questions related to the intraseasonal variability of tropical convection and circulation remain controversial. 1) To what degree is the convective component of the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) a standing oscillation? 2) Is the eastward propagating circulation anomaly of the MJO coherent with a standing oscillation in convection? In an attempt to settle these issues, the authors undertake a series of statistical analyses of gridded outgoing longwave radiation and winds to quantify the magnitudes of the propagating and standing components of convection and their coherence with the propagating component of the circulation. They demonstrate that no dominant standing oscillation in convection can be identified. Instead, intraseasonal variability of convection is dominated by an eastward propagating mode, which the authors interpret as the convective signal of the MJO. This propagating component accounts for almost all of the convective variance that is coherent with the eastward propagating disturbance in the zonal wind, which is a traditional measure of the MJO. Analysis of synthetic time series illustrates that an impression of a standing oscillation in convection may come forth because of the modulation of the eastward propagating convective disturbance by an amplitude envelope with maxima in the eastern Indian and western Pacific Oceans and a minimum over the maritime continents. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences American Meteorological Society

Propagating and Standing Components of the Intraseasonal Oscillation in Tropical Convection

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American Meteorological Society
Copyright
Copyright © 1995 American Meteorological Society
ISSN
0022-4928
eISSN
1520-0469
DOI
10.1175/1520-0469(1997)054<0741:PASCOT>2.0.CO;2
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Abstract

Two questions related to the intraseasonal variability of tropical convection and circulation remain controversial. 1) To what degree is the convective component of the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) a standing oscillation? 2) Is the eastward propagating circulation anomaly of the MJO coherent with a standing oscillation in convection? In an attempt to settle these issues, the authors undertake a series of statistical analyses of gridded outgoing longwave radiation and winds to quantify the magnitudes of the propagating and standing components of convection and their coherence with the propagating component of the circulation. They demonstrate that no dominant standing oscillation in convection can be identified. Instead, intraseasonal variability of convection is dominated by an eastward propagating mode, which the authors interpret as the convective signal of the MJO. This propagating component accounts for almost all of the convective variance that is coherent with the eastward propagating disturbance in the zonal wind, which is a traditional measure of the MJO. Analysis of synthetic time series illustrates that an impression of a standing oscillation in convection may come forth because of the modulation of the eastward propagating convective disturbance by an amplitude envelope with maxima in the eastern Indian and western Pacific Oceans and a minimum over the maritime continents.

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Journal of the Atmospheric SciencesAmerican Meteorological Society

Published: Sep 4, 1995

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