Paul Julian (meteorologist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Paul Julian (meteorologist)

meteorologist

Date of Birth: 12-Oct-1929

Place of Birth: La Porte, Indiana, United States

Profession: meteorologist

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Paul Rowland Julian (born October 12, 1929), a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, is an American meteorologist who served as a longtime staff scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), was co-author with Roland Madden of the study establishing the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO), and contributed to the international, multi-institutional Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP), Tropical Wind, Energy Conversion, and Reference Level Experiment (TWERLE), and Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere (TOGA) meteorology research programs.
The MJO meteorologic phenomenon he co-discovered is the largest element of the intraseasonal variability in the tropical atmosphere, a traveling pattern arising from large-scale coupling between atmospheric circulation and tropical deep convection.
Description of the MJO remains an important contribution to climate research with relevance to modern short- and long-term weather and climate modeling.