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 …

[HTML][HTML] Increased occurrences of consecutive La Niña events under global warming

T Geng, F Jia, W Cai, L Wu, B Gan, Z **g, S Li… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Most El Niño events occur sporadically and peak in a single winter,–, whereas La
Niña tends to develop after an El Niño and last for two years or longer,,–. Relative to single …

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 **, 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 …

Record-breaking warming and extreme drought in the Amazon rainforest during the course of El Niño 2015–2016

JC Jiménez-Muñoz, C Mattar, J Barichivich… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the main driver of interannual climate
extremes in Amazonia and other tropical regions. The current 2015/2016 EN event was …

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 …

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 …