"To Catch A Wave
"Hanging 10" takes on a whole new meaning when your wave goes halfway around the world--ask Duane Waliser and Baijun Tian.

In 1971 while studying zonal winds in the tropical Pacific, Roland Madden and Paul Julian of the National Center for Atmospheric Research noticed what appeared to be the signature of a large-scale wave moving through the atmosphere. Now referred to as the Madden-Julian Oscillation, or simply MJO, this slow eastward-moving wave was found to stretch almost halfway around the world in a band that spanned the equator. In one phase of the wave, air slowly rises, triggering showers and thunderstorms, while in the other phase air slowly sinks, inhibiting clouds and rainfall. Changes between these phases occur approximately every 25-30 days. "
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