Talk:Madden–Julian oscillation

message: I don't consider myself a dumb guy.  I am college graduate, a Mensa member, who teaches US history at a university here.  My verbal SAT score was somewhere around 700 if memory serves.  But I don't understand the first sentences.  What does "(MJO) is an equatorial traveling pattern of anomalous rainfall" mean?  What does "equatorial traveling pattern" and "anomalous rainfall" mean?  I came to Wikipedia to find out, in basic layman's terms, what MJO means.  Could we re-write this into simple, 7th grade, newspaper level English?  For instance, could we say "MJO is a shifting pattern of rainfall along the equator where one area gets more rain then another for part of the period (or year or whatever) and then it switches and the second area gets more rain then the first"?  Other phrases to simplify might be "enhanced and suppressed tropical rainfall".  (How is rainfall suppressed?  Do they send in the police to beat up the raindrops? :) )  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bruce Hall (talk • contribs) 05:39, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm trying to help out here.  Some basic information was previously missing from this article, and some passages have been reworded into simpler English. Thegreatdr (talk) 23:44, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Even better, it wasn't even correct :-). That is just the *manifestation* of the MJO William M. Connolley (talk) 08:59, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

text:  I've now added what it actually is. That doesn't help the technicality problems, though William M. Connolley (talk) 10:13, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Simple English please

message: Most of this article relates to effects of MJO on North America. Does MJO only apply to North Pacific/North America? Or are there similar events elsewhere on the globe?203.97.52.178 (talk) 02:15, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The information within the article was quite scattered.  There was non-North America information within the article, but it just wasn't well organized.  See if the current format is better organized and more easily addresses the non-North America influences/effects of the MJO.  Thegreatdr (talk) 23:45, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Are there Non US Effects of MJO?

message: The caption of the Hovmöller diagram does not give the latitude. (Is it 5°S - 5°N?) Could this information be added? --Roland 01:30, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: What is the latitude in the Hovmöller diagram?

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message: Has the MJO (or "thirty-sixty oscillation") been subject to a statistical discrimination test? Given the max period is only 60d, it would only require 1200d of data to determine the 95% confidence levels of spectral power. For a quasi-stationary real signal the lower 95% of the signal needs to be well above the upper 95% outside of the frequency band. If non-linearity or aperiodicity is involved, the signal will be invisible to any statistical analysis (due to wide-band frequency modulation). There is no proof that the ocean is involved in the oscillation, although it obviously drives the broader scale Walker and Hadley cells.  SSTs show the top few microns, and that may well show only effect rather than cause. Gill has derived the nature of atmospheric eddies, in his book, and they involve an eastwards propagation with simple linear oscillations of a matter of weeks. Seems to fit the MJO well.203.219.222.249 (talk) 23:52, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discrimination tests? 

message: Not sure can consider influence on monsoons as 'local', maybe section title could be changed to 'MJO effects in tropics'. Nzadi (talk) 20:52, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is 'local effects' the right way to describe influence of MJO in tropics as a whole? 

message: The 2nd to last sentence in "Generation of MJO-like structure by geostrophic adjustment in the lower troposphere" seems to be incomplete. Munchyhunch (talk) 18:19, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incomplete sentence