Fig. 2: An exceptionally large and long-lived MJO. | npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Fig. 2: An exceptionally large and long-lived MJO.

From: Multiscale drivers of extreme southern California flooding: ENSO, MJO, North Pacific jet, and atmospheric rivers

Fig. 2

a Dec 12 – Feb 12 average daily OI-SST anomaly (shaded), MJO-LPT contours color-coded by date; b longitude-time evolution of average daily OI-SST anomaly in the 10S–10N region (shaded), MJO-LPT centroid (black), MJO-LPT longitudinal extent (gray shading); c maximum centroid longitude and cumulative area for all MJO 2000–2023 events originating west of 125°E, along with the corresponding bivariate probability density function (shaded, their respective median values are shown by the dashed lines). The c inset shows the distribution of the events’ duration. The Dec 2023–Feb 2024 event is shown by the magenta marker. The red, blue, and white markers denote the 2009–2010, 2013–2014, and 2016 MJO analogs discussed in the following section, respectively.

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