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Since the early 1970s and the early 1980s, the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) in the tropics and some teleconnections in worldwide have respectively become two important topics in climate study. The former is moving low-frequency fluctuations while the latter is standing oscillations. The goal of this chapter is to re-identify the tropical MJO and worldwide teleconnections using anomaly-based analysis method. For examining teleconnections, the rotated empirical orthogonal Function (REOF) is used to analyze the grid maximum height anomalies (MHAs) respectively in the tropics and the two hemispheres. The height anomalies are filtered and applied to represent MJOs, while eastward and westward propagations of tropical oscillations in the three tropical ocean basins are also introduced using the height anomalies.

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Qian, W. (2017). Low-Frequency Oscillations. In: Temporal Climatology and Anomalous Weather Analysis. Springer Atmospheric Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3641-5_10

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