• Madden, R. A., and P. R. Julian (1971), Detection of a 40-50 day oscillation in the zonal wind in the tropical Pacific, J. Atmos. Sci., 28, 702-708.

Working Group Publications

• CLIVAR Madden-Julian Oscillation Working Group, 2009: MJO Simulation Diagnostics. J. Climate, 22, 3006-3030.
• Kim D, Sperber K, Stern W, Waliser D, Kang I, Maloney E, Wang W, Weickmann K, Benedict J,Khairoutdinov M (2009) Application of MJO Simulation Diagnostics to Climate Models. Journal of Climate 22(23): 6413
• Sperber, K R and D E Waliser, 2008: New approaches to understanding, simulating, and forecasting the Madden-Julian Oscillation. Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc. 89, 1917-1920.
• Waliser, D E, K R Sperber, L. Donner, J. Gottschalck, H. Hendon, W. Higgins, I. Kang, D. Kim, D. Legler, E. Maloney, M. Moncrieff, S. Schuber, W. Stern, F. Vitart, B. Wang, W. Wang, K. Weickmann, M. Wheeler, S. Woolnough, and C. Zhang 2008: MJO Simulation Diagnostics. J. Climate (submitted, pdf)
• Waliser, D E and K R Sperber, 2006: U.S. CLIVAR Madden-Julian Oscillation Working Group (MJOWG). CLIVAR Exchanges No 38, page 7. (Unpublished manuscript).
• Waliser, D E and K R Sperber, 2006: U.S. CLIVAR Madden-Julian Oscillation Working Group (MJOWG) Meeting Report. U.S. CLIVAR Variations, Vol. 4, No. 3, page 6-7. (unpublished manuscript)

Reviews

• Madden, R. A., and P. R. Julian (1994), Observations of the 40-50-Day Tropical Oscillation - a Review, Monthly Weather Review, 122, 814-837.
• Lau, W. K. M., and D. E. Waliser (Eds.) (2005), Intraseasonal Variability of the Atmosphere-Ocean Climate System, 474 pp., Springer, Heidelberg, Germany.
• Zhang, C. (2005), The Madden Julian Oscillation, Reviews of Geophysics, 43, RG2003, doi:10.1029/2004RG000158.
• Waliser, D. E. (2006), Intraseasonal Variability, in The Asian Monsoon, edited by B. Wang, p. 844 Springer, Heidelberg, Germany.

Multi-Model Analyses

• Slingo, J. M., et al. (1996), Intraseasonal oscillations in 15 atmospheric general circulation models: Results from an AMIP diagnostic subproject, Clim. Dyn., 12, 325-357.
• Sperber, K. R., et al. (2000), Predictability and the relationship between subseasonal and interannual variability during the Asian summer monsoon, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 126, 2545-2574.
• Waliser, D. E., et al. (2003), AGCM simulations of intraseasonal variability associated with the Asian summer monsoon, Clim. Dyn., 21, 423-446.
• Lin, J. L., et al. (2006), Tropical intraseasonal variability in 14 IPCC AR4 climate models. Part I: Convective signals., J. Climate, In Press.
• Zhang, C, M. Dong, H. H. Hendon, E. D. Maloney, A. Marshall, K. R. Sperber, and W. Wang, 2005: Simulations of the Madden-Julian Oscillation in Four Pairs of Coupled and Uncoupled Global Models. Climate Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-006-0148-2.

Links

• MJO Simulation Metrics
• CPC Intraseasonal Monitoring, Outlooks, Links to Weather and Educational Material
• CPC hazards assessment
• CPC MJO Weekly Update
• CDC MJO experimental prediction website
• CDC MJO monitoring page
• Australian Bureau of Meteorology MJO monitoring and prediction web site

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