El Niño-Southern Oscillation Complexity

Overview

Journal Nature

Specialty Science

Date 2018 Jul 27

PMID 30046070

Citations 71

Authors

Axel Timmermann

Soon-Il An

Jong-Seong Kug

Fei-Fei Jin

Wenju Cai

Antonietta Capotondi

Kim M Cobb

Matthieu Lengaigne

Michael J McPhaden

Malte F Stuecker

Karl Stein

Andrew T Wittenberg

Kyung-Sook Yun

Tobias Bayr

Han-Ching Chen

Yoshimitsu Chikamoto

Boris Dewitte

Dietmar Dommenget

Pamela Grothe

Eric Guilyardi

Yoo-Geun Ham

Michiya Hayashi

Sarah Ineson

Daehyun Kang

Sunyong Kim

WonMoo Kim

June-Yi Lee

Tim Li

Jing-Jia Luo

Shayne McGregor

Yann Planton

Scott Power

Harun Rashid

Hong-Li Ren

Agus Santoso

Ken Takahashi

Alexander Todd

Guomin Wang

Guojian Wang

Ruihuang Xie

Woo-Hyun Yang

Sang-Wook Yeh

Jinho Yoon

Elke Zeller

Xuebin Zhang

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Abstract

El Niño events are characterized by surface warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean and weakening of equatorial trade winds that occur every few years. Such conditions are accompanied by changes in atmospheric and oceanic circulation, affecting global climate, marine and terrestrial ecosystems, fisheries and human activities. The alternation of warm El Niño and cold La Niña conditions, referred to as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), represents the strongest year-to-year fluctuation of the global climate system. Here we provide a synopsis of our current understanding of the spatio-temporal complexity of this important climate mode and its influence on the Earth system.

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