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The Sun sets over the banks of the Chobe River.
Posted inNews

Using Climate Studies to Better Predict Diarrhea Outbreaks

Rachel Crowell, Science Writer by Rachel Crowell 31 January 20209 September 2024

Researchers have found new connections between La Niña climate conditions and the leading killer of children worldwide.

A global map of ocean temperature during the 2016 El Niño event
Posted inNews

Artificial Intelligence May Help Predict El Niño

Jenessa Duncombe, Staff Writer by Jenessa Duncombe 25 September 20195 July 2022

Deep learning techniques give scientists the longest–lead time forecasts yet.

Child receives an oral vaccine.
Posted inNews

El Niño May Be a Culprit Behind the Cholera Epidemic in Yemen

Joshua Learn, Science Writer by Joshua Rapp Learn 3 September 20199 September 2024

Increased rainfall in East Africa and subsequent wind may have brought infected bugs to Yemen, causing the worst cholera outbreak of our time.

Map showing differences in sea surface salinity between two experiments
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Salinity from Space Improves El Niño Forecasts

by Kristopher B. Karnauskas 17 July 201916 December 2021

Assimilating satellite observations of ocean surface salinity significantly improves coupled model forecasts of El Niño.

Aerial photo of a flooded town
Posted inScience Updates

Understanding ENSO in a Changing Climate

by M. J. McPhaden, A. Santoso and W. Cai 23 May 201916 December 2021

Centre for Southern Hemisphere Oceans Research (CSHOR) ENSO Science Symposium; Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 29–31 January 2019

Flatiron clouds
Posted inEditors' Vox

Global Impacts of ENSO Reach into the Stratosphere

by D. I. V. Domeisen, C. I. Garfinkel and A. H. Butler 19 February 201929 March 2022

El Niño events have significant global impacts on weather and climate, but these reach up into the stratosphere, beyond the troposphere where most of Earth’s weather takes place.

A view of bleached coral
Posted inResearch Spotlights

How Ningaloo Niño Supercharges the El Niño–Southern Oscillation

by E. Underwood 11 January 201916 March 2023

The warm current cools the tropical Pacific and strengthens trade winds.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

What American Samoan Corals Tell About El Niño’s History

by E. Thomas 26 November 201830 March 2023

Samoan corals record how patterns of warm/cool and more/less salty in the equatorial Pacific changed in space and time over the last 500 years.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

The Long Reach of El Niño’s Broom

by J. A. Thornton 4 April 201813 February 2023

Both the El Niño Southern Oscillation and natural variations in tropical Pacific weather conditions impact surface air quality in the Eastern United States.

Posted inEditors' Vox

Diversity of El Niño Variability Makes Prediction Challenging

by S.-W. Yeh 26 March 20188 March 2022

The atmospheric response to El Niño, both in the Pacific region and around the world, changes with each event and is uncertain in future under the influence greenhouse gas forcing.

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