A Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) is a massive weather event consisting of deep convection coupled with atmospheric circulation, moving slowly eastward over the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Despite its enormous influence on many weather and climate systems worldwide, it has proven very difficult to simulate an MJO because of assumptions about cumulus clouds in global meteorological models. Using ...

I thank the reviewer for observations made and I agree with the reviewer that real MJO is characterized by an an eastward moving ’pulse’. I said in the paper that this model cannot simulate such a pulse (page 10 line 6), however what the paper underlines is the accordance with results of Goswami and Shukla (1984), where the quasi-periodicity depends on latent heat although the models are differ...

Tropical waves are generally considered to have a baroclinic structure. However, analysis of ERA-Interim and NOAAOLR data for the period 1979–2010 shows that in the equatorial and NorthernHemisphere nearequatorial regions in the tropical Western Hemisphere (WH), westwardand eastward-moving transients, with zonal wavenumbers 2–10 and periods of 2–30 days, have little tilt in the vertical and can...

The track of tropical cyclones (TCs) formed in the South China Sea (SCS) can be divided into eastward and westward directions. Significant decadal variation during 1980–2020 only exists number eastward-moving TCs, especially July–September, with 47% TCs moving 1994–2004 (Period II), 22% 1980–1993 I) 15% 2005–2020 III). This change is related to zonal shift Western Pacific Subtropical High (WPSH...

The summertime intraseasonal oscillation (ISO) is an important component of the south Asian monsoon. Lagged regressions of intraseasonally filtered (25–80 days) outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) reveal that centers of convection move both northward and eastward from the central equatorial Indian Ocean subsequent to the initiation of an ISO. Eastward movement of convection is also seen at Indian...

Remote sensing and field evidence are used to describe sand deposits found in associated pathways of emplacement in the eastern Mojave Desert. Two separate pathways are identified here: one extending eastward from the Bristol Playa through the Cadiz and Danby Playas and Rice Valley to the Colorado River, and a second parallel path extending eastward from Dale Playa through the Palen and Ford Pl...