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MJO Workshop
New Approaches to Meet the Challenge of the Madden-Julian Oscillation

November 5-7, 2007
Beckman Center of the National Academies, Irvine, CA

Organized by the MJO Working Group and sponsored by US CLIVAR.

Travel and Logistics Information

To view Summary and Recommendations (2008, BAMS, in press) - click here

To view MJO Poster Abstracts - click here

To view Agenda and Speaker Abstracts - click here

BACKGROUND: The Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) has persistently posed great challenges in our ability to understand, simulate, and forecast it. The US CLIVAR MJO Working Group was formed in 2006 to address some of these challenges. Building upon a series of workshops on the subject of the MJO , the MJO Working Group has organized this workshop to discuss new thinking and approaches that may help meet the MJO challenges in the context of weather-climate connections by the means of integrative approaches of observations, modeling, and theories.

OBJECTIVES: (1) Introduce to the MJO research and forecast communities new diagnostics designed to systematically and consistently evaluate model performance of simulating and forecasting the MJO. (2) Identify key unknowns that might be crucial to MJO simulations and forecast. (3) Propose new initiatives of innovative and integrative approaches to tackle the problems associated with understanding, simulating and forecasting the MJO.

FORMAT: This is an invitation-only workshop. The focal point of the workshop is the poster and discussion sessions. A few keynote talks will provide overviews, introduce new tools and new thinking, and stimulate discussions. Posters will be grouped based on theme, and they will be kept up during most of the workshop period. Interactions of the MJO with other components of the weather and climate system are considered important to this workshop only if they are crucial to understanding, simulating, and forecasting the MJO itself. Participants are encouraged to present posters on any topics relevant to the workshop objectives.

EXPECTED OUTCOME: Identify research opportunities and teams, integrative approaches, and coordination mechanisms necessary to accelerate (a) model improvement, development and assessment, (b) integration of existing and future observations, and (c) innovative modeling experiments associated with understanding, simulating and forecasting the MJO

1 A workshop on the MJO and ENSO, 15-17 March 2000, GFDL, Princeton, NJ.
NASA Workshop on “Prospects for improved forecasts of weather and short-term climate variability on subseasonal time scales", 16-18 April 2002, Mitchellville, MD;
USCLIVAR/NASA Workshop on "Modeling, Simulation and Forecasting of Subseasonal Variability", 4-5 June 2003, College Park, MD
ECMWF/CLIVAR Workshop on Simulation and Prediction of Intra-Seasonal Variability with Emphasis on the MJO, 3-6 November 2003. ECMWF, Reading, UK.
THORPEX-WCRP Multi-Scale Convection/MJO Trieste Workshop, March 2006;
NCAR TIIMES Workshop in July, 2006;MJO Session at the IUGG, Perugia, Italy, July 11-13, 2007;
Summer School and Workshop on Tropical Convective Systems: Theory, Modeling and Observations, University of Victoria, BC, Canada, July 30-Aug 3, 2007;
Second High-resolution Modeling Workshop, University of Reading, UK, Oct 29-31, 2007;

Hotel Reservations

The Hyatt Regency Newport Beach
1107 Jamboree Road
Newport Beach, CA 92660
Phone: (1) 949-729-1234
Fax: (1) 949-644-1552
Toll Free: 1-800-233-1234 (in the US only)
www.newportbeach.hyatt.com

Please call the hotel directly by October 10, 2007 to make your reservation. We cannot guarantee the government rate after that date.

Rate: $110 +tax Single or double
Meeting group name: MJO Workshop (Please mention the workshop name when booking)

NOTE: It usually isn’t possible to reserve online when booking with a group. Please use phone or fax to make your booking for this meeting. If you have any problems booking you can contact Jill Reisdorf (reisdorf@ucar.edu) for assistance.

Nearby Airports & Ground Transportation

John Wayne-Orange County Airport (SNA): Hotel provides complimentary shuttle to and from airport. Available 6am-10pm. Leaves hotel every hour on the hour, picks up at the airport at approx 15 minutes past. The shuttle picks up outside baggage claim area in the 'Ground Transportation' area.

L.A. Int'l Airport (LAX): Should be arranged through the Super Shuttle. 1-800-BLUE-VAN. Approx $25 per person. Shuttle will drop off at hotel. (Blue vans with yellow lettering that say Super Shuttle). Travel time will depend on traffic, about 30-40 minutes.

Long Beach Airport - Taxi is approx $70.

Ontario Airport: Taxi is approx $80-$90. Can call Super Shuttle for rate information at 1-800-258-3826.

Complimentary hotel shuttle service available to Balboa Island & Fashion Island. Leaves the hotel at 10:30am, 12:30pm, 2:30pm, 4:30pm, 6:30pm, 8:30pm

Amtrak: 12 miles to Irvine, taxi $20-$30.

Meeting Shuttle

Daily shuttle service will be provided to and from the Hotel and Beckman Conference Center. Please Click here for the Schedule.

Conference Center contact information

Beckman Center of the National Academies
100 Academy
Irvine, CA 92612
Phone: (1) 949-721-2200
Fax: (1) 949-721-2288

Logistics Contact

Ms. Jill Reisdorf
Meeting Planner
UCAR-Joint Office for Science Support
3300 Mitchell Ln. FL4-Ste 1102
Boulder, CO 80301
Ph: 303-497-8636
Fx: 303-497-8633
reisdorf@ucar.edu