Climate impacts of the El Niño–southern oscillation on South America

W Cai, MJ McPhaden, AM Grimm… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The climate of South America (SA) has long held an intimate connection with El
Niño, historically describing anomalously warm sea-surface temperatures off the coastline of …

ENSO atmospheric teleconnections and their response to greenhouse gas forcing

SW Yeh, W Cai, SK Min, MJ McPhaden… - Reviews of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
El Niño and Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the most prominent year‐to‐year climate
fluctuation on Earth, alternating between anomalously warm (El Niño) and cold (La Niña) …

Climatic characteristics of the 2010-2016 drought in the semiarid Northeast Brazil region

JA Marengo, LM Alves, RCS Alvala… - Anais da Academia …, 2017 - SciELO Brasil
This study discusses the climatological aspects of the most severe drought ever recorded in
the semiarid region Northeast Brazil. Droughts are recurrent in the region and while El Nino …

ENSO atmospheric teleconnections

AS Taschetto, CC Ummenhofer… - El Niño southern …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Summary The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) causes climatic fluctuations in the tropics
and extratropics via atmospheric teleconnections. The anomalous Pacific sea surface …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of climate extremes indices over northeast Brazil from 1961 to 2014

RL Costa, GM de Mello Baptista, HB Gomes… - Weather and Climate …, 2020 - Elsevier
An analysis of climate extremes indices was conducted for maximum temperatures (TMax),
minimum temperatures (TMin), and daily rainfall data (PRCP) over the northeast region of …

Impacts of teleconnection patterns on South America climate

MS Reboita, T Ambrizzi, NM Crespo… - Annals of the New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Oceanic heat sources disturb the atmosphere, which, to come back to its initial state,
disperses waves. These waves affect the climate in remote regions, characterizing the …

Climate change could threaten cocoa production: Effects of 2015-16 El Niño-related drought on cocoa agroforests in Bahia, Brazil

L Gateau-Rey, EVJ Tanner, B Rapidel, JP Marelli… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Climate models predict a possible increase in the frequency of strong climate events such as
El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which in parts of the tropics are the cause of …

Equatorial Atlantic variability—Modes, mechanisms, and global teleconnections

JF Lübbecke, B Rodríguez‐Fonseca… - Wiley …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Sea surface temperature (SST) variability in the tropical Atlantic Ocean strongly impacts the
climate on the surrounding continents. On interannual time scales, highest SST variability …

The tropical Atlantic observing system

GR Foltz, P Brandt, I Richter… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The tropical Atlantic is home to multiple coupled climate variations covering a wide range of
timescales and impacting societally relevant phenomena such as continental rainfall …

Increase in convective extreme El Niño events in a CO2 removal scenario

G Pathirana, JH Oh, W Cai, SI An, SK Min, SY Jo… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Convective extreme El Niño (CEE) events, characterized by strong convective events in the
eastern Pacific, are known to have a direct link to anomalous climate conditions worldwide …