{"id":17,"date":"2018-08-02T11:14:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/template-blue-prepop\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2021-04-15T12:52:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T16:52:43","slug":"atm-ocean-interactions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/cclayson\/projects\/atm-ocean-interactions\/","title":{"rendered":"Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<h1>Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions<\/h1>\n<p>The Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) is the major fluctuation in tropical weather on weekly to monthly timescales. The MJO can be characterized as eastward intraseasonal oscillations \u00a0of cloud and rainfall near the equator. \u00a0It is established by large-scale changes in atmospheric circulation, convection, and thermodynamic processes that are said to have influences on monsoons, flooding, droughts, wildfires, and tropical storms. \u00a0The\u00a0significant impacts and potential predictability of the MJO have made it an ideal target for the modeling community as attempts are made to bridge the weather to climate continuum.<\/p>\n<p>Working with the NASA\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/terra.nasa.gov\/\">Terra<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/aqua.nasa.gov\/\">Aqua<\/a>\u00a0Project Science Teams we are using\u00a0a suite of Aqua and complementary satellite sensors with in situ oceanographic data over a\u00a0ten-year period (2002-2012) to investigate specific questions with the goal to support observation-based, improved understanding of the Madden-Julian Oscillation MJO during the recharge\/suppressed phase. \u00a0We address topics including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The role of individual cloud regimes in supporting preconditioning through moistening of the atmosphere and changes in cloud-radiative effects<\/li>\n<li>The characterization of intraseasonal sea surface temperature variability impacts on atmospheric destabilization processes, cloud regime characteristics, and association to upper ocean warming<\/li>\n<li>The role of prevalent suppressed-phase induced diurnal warming in affecting atmospheric boundary layer evolution, cloud regimes, and ocean mixing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our analyses will make use of uniquely defined cloud regimes to provide an enhanced compositing technique that enables the identification of systematic connections between different cloud regimes and the larger scale environment suitable for testing analogous relationships in a modeling framework. It is expected these targeted analyses will provide new insights regarding how atmosphere-ocean interactions impact the initiation and development of the MJO. \u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_134\" style=\"width: 283px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-134\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"..\/..\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2018\/08\/CAC-Aqua.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"182\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aqua<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_135\" style=\"width: 279px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-135\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"..\/..\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2018\/08\/CAC_Terra.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"179\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terra<\/p><\/div>\n\t<h3>Funding Agencies<\/h3>\n<p>The National Aeronautics and Space Administration funded this research.<\/p>\n\n\t<h3>Related Links and File<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aqua.nasa.gov\/\">Aqua Project Science<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/terra.nasa.gov\/\">Terra | The EOS Flagship<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t<h3>Research Papers<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#\">A link<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#\">Another link<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#\">A\u00a0PDF file attachment<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions The Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) is the major fluctuation in tropical weather on weekly to monthly timescales. The MJO can be characterized as eastward intraseasonal oscillations \u00a0of cloud and rainfall near the equator. \u00a0It is established by large-scale changes in atmospheric circulation, convection, and thermodynamic processes that are said to have influences on monsoons,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/cclayson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/cclayson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/cclayson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/cclayson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/cclayson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/cclayson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/cclayson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/382"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/cclayson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/cclayson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}