Title
El Niño–Southern Oscillation complexity
Date Issued
26 July 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
review
Author(s)
Timmermann A.
An S.I.
Kug J.S.
Jin F.F.
Cai W.
Capotondi A.
Cobb K.
Lengaigne M.
McPhaden M.J.
Stuecker M.F.
Stein K.
Wittenberg A.T.
Yun K.S.
Bayr T.
Chen H.C.
Chikamoto Y.
Dewitte B.
Dommenget D.
Grothe P.
Guilyardi E.
Ham Y.G.
Hayashi M.
Ineson S.
Kang D.
Kim S.
Kim W.M.
Lee J.Y.
Li T.
Luo J.J.
McGregor S.
Planton Y.
Power S.
Rashid H.
Ren H.L.
Santoso A.
Todd A.
Wang G.
Wang G.
Xie R.
Yang W.H.
Yeh S.W.
Yoon J.
Zeller E.
Zhang X.
Publisher(s)
Nature Publishing Group
Abstract
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 accompanied by changes in atmospheric and oceanic circulation, affecting global climate, marine and terrestrial ecosystems, fisheries and human activities. The alternation of warm El Niño and cold La Niña conditions, referred to as the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), represents the strongest year-to-year fluctuation of the global climate system. Here we provide a synopsis of our current understanding of the spatio-temporal complexity of this important climate mode and its influence on the Earth system.
Start page
535
End page
545
Volume
559
Issue
7715
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Meteorología y ciencias atmosféricas
Investigación climática
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85050666207
PubMed ID
Source
Nature
ISSN of the container
00280836
Sponsor(s)
Acknowledgements A.T., K.S., K.-S.Y. and E.Z. were supported by the Institute for Basic Science (project code IBS-R028-D1). B.D. was funded by Fondecyt (grant 1151185). S.-I.A. was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2017R1A2A2A05069383). J.-S.K. was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2017R1A2B3011511). F.-F.J.’s contribution was sponsored through the US NSF Grant AGS-1406601 and the US Department of Energy Grant DE-SC0005110. T.B. receives funding from SFB 754, project ‘Climate–Biochemistry Interactions in the tropical Ocean’. M.J.M. is supported by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). H.-L.R. is supported by the China Meteorological Special Research Project (grant number GYHY201506013). S.I. was supported by the UK–China Research & Innovation Partnership Fund through the Met Office Climate Science for Service Partnership (CSSP) China as part of the Newton Fund. M.F.S. acknowledges support from the NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, administered by UCAR’s Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Sciences (CPAESS). H.R. was partly funded by the National Environmental Science Program, Australia. This is PMEL contribution number 4723. The authors thank the TAO Project Office of NOAA/PMEL for providing the TAO/TRITON 20 °C isotherm depth anomaly data shown in Fig. 5.
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