Washington, Sept 23 (ANI): The Indian Ocean will be investigated from next month, using aircraft, ships, moorings, radars, numerical models and other tools, to study how tropical weather brews there and moves eastward along the equator, with reverberating effects around the globe.
The six-month field campaign, known as DYNAMO or Dynamics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation, will help improve long-range weather forecasts and seasonal outlooks and enable scientists to further refine computer models of global climate.
The goal of the DYNAMO field campaign is to better understand a disturbance of the tropics, known as the Madden-Julian Oscillation or MJO.
This disturbance, which originates in the equatorial Indian Ocean roughly every 30 to 90 days, is part of the Asian and Australian monsoons and can enhance hurricane activity in the northeast Pacific and Gulf of Mexico, trigger torrential rainfall along the west coast of North America and affect the onset of El Nino.
Scientists believe that the MJO is the world's greatest source of atmospheric variability in the one- to three-month time frame.
"The Madden-Julian Oscillation has a huge impact all over the globe. It connects weather and climate, and it is important to forecasting," said Chidong Zhang of the University of Miami, DYNAMO's chief scientist.
A total of 16 countries are providing staff, facilities, and observations for the international effort. (ANI)
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