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New Views into the Pineapple Express (1 of 2)

Caption: Researchers have successfully simulated a Madden-Julian Oscillation Event. Also called the Pineapple Express, the event is a complex interplay of atmospheric disturbances that begin in the Indian and Pacific Ocean, last 30 to 60 days and affect the upper atmosphere and the deep sea. At the top, an infrared image from the Multi-Functional Transport Satellite (MTSAT-1R) at 00:30 UTC on 31 December 2006, and, at the bottom, an outgoing long-wave radiation from the 3.5-km run averaged from 00:00 UTC to to 01:30 UTC on Dec. 31, 2006. This image relates to article that appeared in the Dec. 14, 2007 issue of the journal Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. by H. Miura at Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology in Kanagawa, Japan, was titled " A Madden-Julian Oscillation Event Realistically Simulated by a Global Cloud-Resolving Model."

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