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A Climate Fluctuation That Could Improve Forecasts Remains a Mystery

What keeps people awake at night? For baseball players, it might be a late-breaking fastball. It looks like you could hit it right out of the park until it curves. For meteorologists, an equivalent problem is called the Madden-Julian oscillation, or the MJO. Chidong Zhang and Michael McPhaden are quoted. 

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