Toward an Understanding of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: With a Mesoscale-Convection-Resolving Model of 0.2 Degree Grid

Table 2

Sea surface temperature (SST) of the basic state. The SST is linearly interpolated between two latitudes shown. It is taken to be symmetric with respect to the equator.

Latitude	0	5	15	25	30	35	40	45	55	70
SST	301	301	300	299	298	294	288	283	280	280