World Meteorological Organization

WGNE MJO
Task Force

The Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) Task Force (hereafter MJO-TF) has the goal to facilitate improvements in the representation of the MJO in weather and climate models in order to increase the predictive skill of the MJO and related weather and climate phenomena.

The MJO-TF was initially formed in 2010 under the banner of the Year of Tropical Convection (YOTC) activity following the earlier success of the US CLIVAR MJO Working Group (from 2006-2009). Successes were achieved in making a set of MJO simulation diagnostics as well as in the establishment of an activity to monitor and compare MJO forecasts in real time. At the beginning of 2013 the MJO-TF was reformulated again as the WGNE MJO Task Force with the replacement of five members and the injection of new ideas.

News

• The MJO Task Force was reformulated as the WGNE MJO Task Force at the beginning of 2013
  
  
• Minutes of the MJO Task Force, teleconference, 6 September 2016
  
  
• Minutes of the MJO Task Force Business Meeting, Singapore, 14 April 2016
  
  
• Minutes of the MJO Task Force Meeting, Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, Prague
  29 June 2015

Projects and activities

• MJOTF-S2S Joint Project on MJO and Maritime Continent Interactions
  
  
•   GASS/MJOTF Diabatic Heating Project
  

•   Forecasting the MJO  
  

• Forecasting the Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation
  
  
• Terms of references

• Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) Task Force: a joint effort of the climate and weather communities
  
  
• Heritage information

• CMIP5 and CMIP3 analysis

Past meetings, presentations and minutes

• Joint S2S-MJO Task Force Maritime Continent meeting and associated MJO Task Force meeting (Singapore, 11-14 April 2016)

• Minutes of the meeting of the MJO-TF Teleconf on 22 January 2015
• Minutes for the meeting of the MJO-TF 16 August 2014 (Montreal, Canada)
  
• Minutes for the meeting of the MJO-TF on 5 March 2014
  
• Minutes for the meeting of the MJO-TF on 17 December 2013
  
• Minutes for the meeting of the MJO-TF on 27 October 2013
  
• MJO-TF meeting in conjunction with the Fifth International Workshop on Monsoons
  (IWM-V) (Macao, 27 October 2013)
• Minutes for teleconf of the MJO-TF on 27 June 2013
• Singapore workshop on MJO Diabatic Processes (3-5 June 2013)
• Minutes of the first teleconference on 28 March 2013

Membership list (as of 2016)

•  Daehyun Kim, Co-chair, University of Washington
     e-mail: daehyun at uw.edu
  
• Steve Woolnough, Co-chair, Uni. of Reading
     e-mail: s.j.woolnough at reading.ac.uk
• Charlotte DeMott, CMMAP/CSU
     e-mail: demott at atmos.colostate.edu
• Hyemi Kim, Stony Brook University
  e-mail: hyemi.kim at stonybrook.edu
• Nicholas Klingaman, University of Reading
     e-mail: n.p.klingaman at reading.ac.uk
• Tieh-Yong Koh, Singapore University of Social Sciences
      e-mail: tykoh at suss.edu.sg

• Eric Maloney, Colorado State University
  e-mail: emaloney at atmos.colostate.edu
  
• Adrian Matthews, University of East Anglia
  e-mail: a.j.matthews at uea.ac.uk
• Tomoki Miyakawa, AORI/ University of Tokyo
     e-mail: miyakawa at aori.u-tokyo.ac.jp
• Richard Neale, NCAR
     e-mail: rneale at ucar.edu
• Camille Risi, Lab de Meteorologie Dynamique
     e-mail: camille.risi at lmd.jussieu.fr
• Ken Sperber, PCMDI
     e-mail: sperber1 at llnl.gov
• Matthew Wheeler, Bureau of Meteorology
     e-mail:  m.wheeler at bom.gov.au
• Prince Xavier, UK Met Office
     e-mail: prince.xavier at metoffice.gov.uk