Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

A model for super El Niños

  • Saji N. Hameed,
  • Dachao Jin,
  • Vishnu Thilakan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04803-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Despite advances in ENSO modeling, super El Niño events remain largely unpredictable. Hameed et al. postulate that ENSO-IOD interaction is crucial for super El Niño development and identify a self-limiting factor that constrains ENSO dynamics from generating these extreme events on their own.