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A grand challenge in contemporary climate, atmosphere, and ocean science is to understand and predict intraseasonal variability for time scales from 30 to 60 days, which is longer than standard weather time scales of at most a week and much shorter than the yearly time scales of short-term climate. In a prescient report from the 1950s, John von Neumann called such problems at the intersection of weather and climate the greatest challenge in future meteorology.
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Majda, A.J., Stechmann, S.N., Chen, S., Ogrosky, H.R., Thual, S. (2019). Introduction. In: Tropical Intraseasonal Variability and the Stochastic Skeleton Method. Mathematics of Planet Earth(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22247-5_1
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