Changing El Niño–Southern oscillation in a warming climate

W Cai, A Santoso, M Collins, B Dewitte… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Originating in the equatorial Pacific, the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has highly
consequential global impacts, motivating the need to understand its responses to …

Climate impacts of the El Niño–southern oscillation on South America

W Cai, MJ McPhaden, AM Grimm… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The climate of South America (SA) has long held an intimate connection with El
Niño, historically describing anomalously warm sea-surface temperatures off the coastline of …

El Niño–southern oscillation complexity

A Timmermann, SI An, JS Kug, FF Jin, W Cai… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
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 …

Pantropical climate interactions

W Cai, L Wu, M Lengaigne, T Li, S McGregor, JS Kug… - Science, 2019 - science.org
BACKGROUND Ocean-atmosphere interactions in the tropics have a profound influence on
the climate system. El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which is spawned in the tropical …

Mechanisms of tropical Pacific decadal variability

A Capotondi, S McGregor, MJ McPhaden… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Naturally occurring tropical Pacific variations at timescales of 7–70 years—tropical Pacific
decadal variability (TPDV)—describe basin-scale sea surface temperature (SST), sea-level …

Three-ocean interactions and climate variability: a review and perspective

C Wang - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Interactions among the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans through ocean–
atmosphere coupling can initiate and/or modulate climate variability. The Pacific Ocean is …

ENSO and greenhouse warming

W Cai, A Santoso, G Wang, SW Yeh, SI An… - Nature Climate …, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract The El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the dominant climate phenomenon
affecting extreme weather conditions worldwide. Its response to greenhouse warming has …

Increased variability of the western Pacific subtropical high under greenhouse warming

K Yang, W Cai, G Huang, K Hu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
An anomalous strengthening in western Pacific subtropical high (WPSH) increases moisture
transport from the tropics to East Asia, inducing anomalous boreal summer monsoonal …

Theories on formation of an anomalous anticyclone in western North Pacific during El Niño: A review

T Li, B Wang, B Wu, T Zhou, CP Chang… - Journal of Meteorological …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract The western North Pacific anomalous anticyclone (WNPAC) is an important
atmospheric circulation system that conveys El Niño impact on East Asian climate. In this …

Atlantic-induced pan-tropical climate change over the past three decades

X Li, SP Xie, ST Gille, C Yoo - Nature Climate Change, 2016 - nature.com
During the past three decades, tropical sea surface temperature (SST) has shown dipole-
like trends, with warming over the tropical Atlantic and Indo-western Pacific but cooling over …