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 …

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 …

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 …

Interacting tip** elements increase risk of climate domino effects under global warming

N Wunderling, JF Donges, J Kurths… - Earth System …, 2020 - esd.copernicus.org
There exists a range of subsystems in the climate system exhibiting threshold behaviour
which could be triggered under global warming within this century resulting in severe …

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 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 frequency of extreme La Niña events under greenhouse warming

W Cai, G Wang, A Santoso, MJ McPhaden, L Wu… - Nature Climate …, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract The El Niño/Southern Oscillation is Earth's most prominent source of interannual
climate variability, alternating irregularly between El Niño and La Niña, and resulting in …

A review of past and projected changes in Australia's rainfall

R Dey, SC Lewis, JM Arblaster… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
There has been much attention given to the spatial and temporal characteristics of changes
in mean and extreme rainfall over Australia during the past century. As Australia is the …

ENSO diversity

A Capotondi, AT Wittenberg, JS Kug… - El Niño Southern …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
ENSO events display large interevent differences in amplitude, spatial pattern, and temporal
evolution. The differences in spatial pattern, which have important consequences for ENSO …

Projections of faster onset and slower decay of El Niño in the 21st century

H Lopez, SK Lee, D Kim, AT Wittenberg… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Future changes in the seasonal evolution of the El Niño—Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
during its onset and decay phases have received little attention by the research community …