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 …

South Pacific Convergence Zone dynamics, variability and impacts in a changing climate

JR Brown, M Lengaigne, BR Lintner… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ) is a diagonal band of intense rainfall
and deep atmospheric convection extending from the equator to the subtropical South …

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 …

Increasing frequency of extreme El Niño events due to greenhouse warming

W Cai, S Borlace, M Lengaigne, P Van Rensch… - Nature climate …, 2014 - nature.com
El Niño events are a prominent feature of climate variability with global climatic impacts. The
1997/98 episode, often referred to as 'the climate event of the twentieth century',, and the …

How well are tropical cyclones represented in reanalysis datasets?

K Hodges, A Cobb, PL Vidale - Journal of Climate, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Tropical cyclones (TCs) are identified and tracked in six recent reanalysis datasets and
compared with those from the IBTrACS best-track archive. Results indicate that nearly every …

ENSO atmospheric teleconnections

AS Taschetto, CC Ummenhofer… - El Niño southern …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Summary The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) causes climatic fluctuations in the tropics
and extratropics via atmospheric teleconnections. The anomalous Pacific sea surface …

Continued increase of extreme El Niño frequency long after 1.5 C warming stabilization

G Wang, W Cai, B Gan, L Wu, A Santoso, X Lin… - Nature Climate …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract The Paris Agreement aims to constrain global mean temperature (GMT) increases
to 2° C above pre-industrial levels, with an aspirational target of 1.5° C. However, the …

A combination mode of the annual cycle and the El Niño/Southern Oscillation

MF Stuecker, A Timmermann, FF **, S McGregor… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Abstract The El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is characterized by two main states: El
Niño events defined by positive sea surface temperature anomalies in the eastern tropical …

Dominant contribution of atmospheric nonlinearities to ENSO asymmetry and extreme El Niño events

G Srinivas, J Vialard, F Liu, A Voldoire, T Izumo… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Extreme El Niño events have outsized impacts and strongly contribute to the El
Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) warm/cold phase asymmetries. There is currently no …