Spurious North Tropical Atlantic precursors to El Niño

Wenjun Zhang; Feng Jiang; Malte F. Stuecker; Fei-Fei Jin; Axel Timmermann

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-23411-6

Nature Communications (May 2021)

Spurious North Tropical Atlantic precursors to El Niño

Wenjun Zhang,
Feng Jiang,
Malte F. Stuecker,
Fei-Fei Jin,
Axel Timmermann

Affiliations

Wenjun Zhang: Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster of Ministry of Education (KLME), Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Feng Jiang: Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster of Ministry of Education (KLME), Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Malte F. Stuecker: Department of Oceanography & International Pacific Research Center (IPRC), School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Fei-Fei Jin: Department of Atmospheric Sciences, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Axel Timmermann: Institute for Basic Science, Center for Climate Physics

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23411-6
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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It has been suggested that sea surface temperatures in the North Tropical Atlantic exert strong influence on the evolution of the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Here, the authors argue that observed statistics are fully consistent with ENSO driving climate variations in the Atlantic and not vice versa.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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