Ángel F. Adames-Corraliza

And as a result, forecasting weather and climate events in the tropics is more daunting to the detrimental to people that live there, right?

Because sometimes you do get extreme events like floods, heat waves, and things that actually are very costly, not just in infrastructure, but in life.

and they're not very well predicted, you know?

And so that's the big thing, right?

Like ultimately it is a problem of human safety and wellbeing that we cannot forecast things in the tropics as well as we do in the mid latitudes.

Yep.

Right.

So the MJO is actually the most important tropical phenomenon that you don't know, that people don't know about.

That's the way that I would like people to think about.

It's comparably as important as El Nino.

Okay.

And it has not just massive impacts in the tropics, but it has impacts throughout the globe.

It actually modulates weather in the Mid-Atlantis.

For example, atmospheric rivers that cause flooding in California are modulated by the MJO.

So it's a global phenomenon.

It's rooted in the tropics.

It starts in the Indian Ocean.

It is about the size of Russia.

So it's huge.

And it propagates eastward pretty slowly.