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 …

Increased variability of eastern Pacific El Niño under greenhouse warming

W Cai, G Wang, B Dewitte, L Wu, A Santoso… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the dominant and most consequential
climate variation on Earth, and is characterized by warming of equatorial Pacific sea surface …

The defining characteristics of ENSO extremes and the strong 2015/2016 El Niño

A Santoso, MJ Mcphaden, W Cai - Reviews of Geophysics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The year 2015 was special for climate scientists, particularly for the El Niño Southern
Oscillation (ENSO) research community, as a major El Niño finally materialized after a long …

ENSO atmospheric teleconnections and their response to greenhouse gas forcing

SW Yeh, W Cai, SK Min, MJ McPhaden… - Reviews of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
El Niño and Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the most prominent year‐to‐year climate
fluctuation on Earth, alternating between anomalously warm (El Niño) and cold (La Niña) …

Anthropogenic impacts on twentieth-century ENSO variability changes

W Cai, B Ng, T Geng, F Jia, L Wu, G Wang… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) sea surface temperature (SST) variability
increased after 1960, influenced by more frequent strong El Niño and La Niña events …

Historical change of El Niño properties sheds light on future changes of extreme El Niño

B Wang, X Luo, YM Yang, W Sun… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
El Niño's intensity change under anthropogenic warming is of great importance to society,
yet current climate models' projections remain largely uncertain. The current classification of …

Higher frequency of Central Pacific El Niño events in recent decades relative to past centuries

MB Freund, BJ Henley, DJ Karoly, HV McGregor… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
El Niño events differ substantially in their spatial pattern and intensity. Canonical Eastern
Pacific El Niño events have sea surface temperature anomalies that are strongest in the far …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding ENSO diversity

A Capotondi, AT Wittenberg… - Bulletin of the …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
Understanding ENSO Diversity in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Volume 96
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Emergence of changing central-pacific and eastern-pacific El Niño-Southern Oscillation in a warming climate

T Geng, W Cai, L Wu, A Santoso, G Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) features strong warm events in the eastern
equatorial Pacific (EP), or mild warm and strong cold events in the central Pacific (CP), with …