Role of the Boundary Layer Moisture Asymmetry in Causing the Eastward Propagation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation*

By P. Hsu, Tim Li. 2012

273 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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In Atmospheric Science

1. Duane Waliser
2. F. Vitart
3. Hye-Mi Kim
4. Chidong Zhang
5. E. Maloney
6. C. DeMott
7. N. Klingaman
8. Hai Lin

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Duane Waliser
2. F. Vitart
3. Hye-Mi Kim
4. Chidong Zhang
5. E. Maloney
6. C. DeMott
7. N. Klingaman
8. Hai Lin

In Oceanography

1. F. Vitart
2. Duane Waliser
3. Hye-Mi Kim
4. Chidong Zhang
5. C. DeMott
6. E. Maloney
7. Á. Adames
8. Xianan Jiang

Citations in the corpus

• Fifty Years of Research on the Madden‐Julian Oscillation: Recent Progress, Challenges, and Perspectives (2020, background): “…that amplify radiative feedbacks to MJO convection (Del Genio & Chen, 2015), low‐level convergence forced by MJO‐associated sharp SST gradients (P. C. Hsu & Li, 2012; Y. Li & Carbone, 2012), or amplified low‐level convergence east of MJO convection through lower tropospheric destabilization…”
• Atmosphere‐ocean coupled processes in the Madden‐Julian oscillation (2015, background): “The spatially extensive warm SST anomaly can promote low-level moisture convergence [Lindzen and Nigam, 1987; Back and Bretherton, 2009; Hsu and Li, 2012], encouraging the eastward propagation of the MJO by supplementing the atmospheric frictional wave-CISK convergence.”
• Prediction of the Madden–Julian Oscillation: A Review (2018, background): “…SST-modulated heat fluxes and enhancing the boundary layer moisture convergence, which maintains the convective anomalies and fuels the eastward propagation (e.g., Lindzen and Nigam 1987; Waliser et al. 1999; Maloney and Sobel 2004; Back and Bretherton 2009; Hsu and Li 2012; Hirata et al. 2013).”
• The MJO as a Dispersive, Convectively Coupled Moisture Wave: Theory and Observations (2016, unknown): “…used to study the dynamics of the MJO in re-analysis (Benedict and Randall 2007; Kiranmayi and Maloney 2011; Hannah and Maloney 2014; among others) and GCM simulations (Benedict and Randall 2009; Maloney et al. 2010; Hsu and Li 2012; Hsu et al. 2014; Pritchard and Bretherton 2014; among others).”