AOS Department Seminar - Stephanie Henderson/David Henderson

Anomalous tropical convection associated with the Madden-Julian Oscillation is known to significantly alter extratropical weather and climate patterns. Tropical latent heat and radiative heating has been long demonstrated as a major component of the atmospheric energy budget. Cloud and water vapor radiative heating anomalies associated with the MJO may be an effective source of energy driving the teleconnections to the extratropics; however, the influence of radiative heating, and the importance