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An image of a partially submerged house, powerline pole, and foliage in a flooded neighborhood in Asunción, Paraguay
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More Frequent El Niño Events Predicted by 2040

by Rachel Fritts 20 April 202220 April 2022

Cutting-edge models predict that El Niño frequency will increase within 2 decades because of climate change, regardless of emissions mitigation efforts.

A coast of the Galapagos Islands in the eastern tropical Pacific
Posted inNews

Tropical Climate Change Is a Puzzle—Could Aerosols Be a Piece?

by Andrew Chapman 9 September 202114 April 2022

The eastern tropical Pacific Ocean hasn’t warmed as much as climate change models projected. A new study shows that aerosols in the atmosphere could be responsible.

The heat surface of El Niño in 2015 looks like El Niño in 1997.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Explaining Thermal Tides in the Upper Atmosphere During the 2015 El Niño

by David Shultz 26 August 202126 October 2021

Increased tropospheric heating and reduced dissipation combine to explain an anomalously large thermal tide.

Green shoots rise from dry, cracked soil.
Posted inFeatures

Climate Change Uproots Global Agriculture

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 25 January 20211 April 2022

Climate change is shifting where ideal growing conditions exist and is leaving farmers behind. How can we secure our future food supply and support the people who grow it?

A farmer in New South Wales, Australia, stood beside an animal carcass during a drought caused by the 2018–2019 El Niño
Posted inEditors' Vox

Advancing Knowledge of ENSO in a Changing Climate

by M. J. McPhaden, A. Santoso and W. Cai 9 November 20209 November 2020

A new book highlights research progress on El Niño Southern Oscillation dynamics and impacts and how they may change in a warmer world.

A view of corals just below the ocean surface off American Samoa
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Corals Make Reliable Recorders of El Niño Fluctuations

by Terri Cook 24 July 202029 September 2021

A new tool that reconciles modeling and paleoclimate data builds confidence that tropical Pacific corals reliably archive natural variability in the El Niño–Southern Oscillation climate pattern.

The mushroom cloud of the Frigate Bird nuclear test seen through an aircraft periscope
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Una Guerra Nuclear Podría Generar un “Niño Nuclear”

by Jenessa Duncombe 30 April 20204 February 2022

Una sacudida al sistema climático provista por una guerra nuclear podría provocar un fenómeno de el Niño como nunca habíamos visto.

Diagram and chart showing characteristics of the North Equatorial Current Bifurcation
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Different El Niño, Different Paths of North Equatorial Current

by L. Zhou 6 April 202016 December 2021

Different types of El Niño have different impacts on the North Equatorial Current Bifurcation and can be extended to ocean circulations in the Pacific and the global climate system.

Elevated photo of a busy Hong Kong street during a light rain
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Chinese Swamp Core Reveals 47,000 Years of Monsoon History

by Sarah Stanley 2 April 202029 September 2021

Magnetic analysis of mineral composition supports the importance of tropical climate processes in shaping long-term monsoon patterns.

A colony of 60,000 pairs of king penguins stands on the exposed gray bedrock of South Georgia.
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How Climate Science Is Expanding the Scale of Ecological Research

by Kate Wheeling 31 March 202025 April 2022

Tools developed for climate science can help researchers forecast ecological dipoles: the contrasting effects of climate on populations separated by thousands of kilometers.

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