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https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-14-33-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-14-33-2023
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21 Feb 2023
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A pioneering time of discoveries in large-scale tropical meteorology: 1960 through 1972

Roland A. Madden

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The Madden–Julian Oscillation (MJO) is an important phenomenon in tropical meteorology first discovered in the early 1970s by Roland Madden and Paul Julian. In this paper, Roland Madden relates the story of developments in theory, observations, and analysis techniques in the 1960s that led to that discovery.