Drivers and impacts of Eastern African rainfall variability

PI Palmer, CM Wainwright, B Dong… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Eastern Africa exhibits bimodal rainfall consisting of long rains (March–May) and short rains
(October–December), changes in which have profound socioeconomic and environmental …

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 …

Weather and climate extreme events in a changing climate

SI Seneviratne, X Zhang, M Adnan, W Badi… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
Caption: Table A. 11. 2. Synthesis table summarising assessments presented in Tables 11.4-
11.21 for hot extremes (HOT EXT.), heavy precipitation (HEAVY PRECIP.), agriculture and …

2023 summer warmth unparalleled over the past 2,000 years

J Esper, M Torbenson, U Büntgen - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Including an exceptionally warm Northern Hemisphere summer,, 2023 has been reported as
the hottest year on record,–. However, contextualizing recent anthropogenic warming …

Global seasonal forecasts of marine heatwaves

MG Jacox, MA Alexander, D Amaya, E Becker… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Marine heatwaves (MHWs)—periods of exceptionally warm ocean temperature lasting
weeks to years—are now widely recognized for their capacity to disrupt marine ecosystems …

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 ENSO sea surface temperature variability under four IPCC emission scenarios

W Cai, B Ng, G Wang, A Santoso, L Wu… - Nature Climate Change, 2022 - nature.com
Sea surface temperature (SST) variability of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) underpins
its global impact, and its future change is a long-standing science issue. In its sixth …

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 …

Central and south america

EJ Castellanos, MF Lemos, L Astigarraga, N Chacón… - 2022 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
Central and South America (CSA) is a highly diverse region, both culturally and biologically.
It has one of the highest levels of biodiversity on the planet (Hoorn et al., 2010; Zador et al …