Three papers supported by NOAA CPO’s Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (MAPP) and Climate Variability and Predictability (CVP) programs as well as NOAA’s Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship program were recently published online in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmosphere, documenting progress in the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) global model evaluation project.