Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

Projections of faster onset and slower decay of El Niño in the 21st century

  • Hosmay Lopez,
  • Sang-Ki Lee,
  • Dongmin Kim,
  • Andrew T. Wittenberg,
  • Sang-Wook Yeh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29519-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The El Niño - Southern Oscillation can have global impacts, therefore assessing its future occurrence is needed. Here, the authors project that El Niño will grow at a faster rate, persist longer over the eastern and far eastern Pacific, and have stronger and distinct remote impacts in the 21st Century