Significance Statement The MJO affects extratropical extreme weather and climate events

The gap

Evidence profile

Sourced from the stated research gap and future-work section and abstract of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2025 and 2026, spanning 2 journals.

Supporting evidence — 4 representative gaps

• Spatiotemporal Variability of Precipitation and Teleconnections in Mekong Delta (Vietnam) (2026) · Atmosphere · doi

  The lack of a comprehensive understanding of how large-scale ocean-atmospheric teleconnection patterns influence precipitation variability in the Mekong Delta. The need for a multi-index approach to quantify the relationships between climate modes and precipitation variability.

  generalstated research gapevidence 5/5
  Keywords: lack comprehensive understanding large-scale ocean-atmospheric teleconnection patterns influence
• Spatiotemporal Variability of Precipitation and Teleconnections in Mekong Delta (Vietnam) (2026) · Atmosphere · doi

  Further research is needed to investigate the impacts of other climate modes on VMD precipitation variability - The development of more advanced statistical models that can capture non-linear relationships between climate modes and precipitation variability - Investigation of the potential applications of the multi-index teleconnection framework for climate-adaptive water resource management

  generalfuture-work sectionevidence 5/5
  Keywords: further research needed investigate impacts other climate modes
• Moisture Budgets and Circulation Analogs: Diagnosing Dynamic and Thermodynamic Precipitation Change (2026) · Journal of Climate · doi

  Further analysis of the methodological differences between the two approaches is needed, - Application of the combined framework to other regions and datasets could provide further insights, - Investigation of the impact of dynamic and thermodynamic trends on precipitation variability in different climate scenarios

  generalfuture-work sectionevidence 5/5
  Keywords: further analysis methodological differences between two approaches needed
• Alternative Interpretation of MJO Teleconnection via Dynamical Mode Decomposition (2025) · Journal of Climate · doi

  Significance Statement The MJO affects extratropical extreme weather and climate events through inducing global teleconnections, yet the dynamics of MJO teleconnection is not fully understood and the models’ ability in predicting the MJO teleconnection has room to improve.

  generalabstractevidence 5/5
  Keywords: teleconnection significance statement affects extratropical extreme weather climate events inducing global teleconnections dynamics fully understood

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