El Niño and southern oscillation (ENSO): a review

C Wang, C Deser, JY Yu, P DiNezio… - Coral reefs of the eastern …, 2017 - Springer
The ENSO observing system in the tropical Pacific plays an important role in monitoring
ENSO and helping improve the understanding and prediction of ENSO. Occurrence of …

The remarkably strong Arctic stratospheric polar vortex of winter 2020: Links to record‐breaking Arctic oscillation and ozone loss

ZD Lawrence, J Perlwitz, AH Butler… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Northern Hemisphere (NH) polar winter stratosphere of 2019/2020 featured an
exceptionally strong and cold stratospheric polar vortex. Wave activity from the troposphere …

Explaining extreme events of 2014 from a climate perspective

SC Herring, MP Hoerling, JP Kossin… - Bulletin of the …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
Explaining extreme events of 2014 from a climate perspective Special Supplement to the Bulletin
of the American Meteorological Society Vol. 96, No. 12, December 2015 From A Climate …

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 …

Causes of the 2011–14 California drought

R Seager, M Hoerling, S Schubert, H Wang… - Journal of …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
The causes of the California drought during November–April winters of 2011/12–2013/14
are analyzed using observations and ensemble simulations with seven atmosphere models …

El Niño in a changing climate

SW Yeh, JS Kug, B Dewitte, MH Kwon, BP Kirtman… - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
El Niño events, characterized by anomalous warming in the eastern equatorial Pacific
Ocean, have global climatic teleconnections and are the most dominant feature of cyclic …

The atmospheric bridge: The influence of ENSO teleconnections on air–sea interaction over the global oceans

MA Alexander, I Bladé, M Newman… - Journal of …, 2002 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract During El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events, the atmospheric response to
sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies in the equatorial Pacific influences ocean …

The last millennium climate reanalysis project: Framework and first results

GJ Hakim, J Emile‐Geay, EJ Steig… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
An “offline” approach to DA is used, where static ensemble samples are drawn from existing
CMIP climate‐model simulations to serve as the prior estimate of climate variables. We use …

All-season climatology and variability of atmospheric river frequencies over the North Pacific

BD Mundhenk, EA Barnes, ED Maloney - Journal of Climate, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
Recent work on atmospheric rivers (ARs) has led to a characterization of these impactful
features as primarily cold-season phenomena. Here, an all-season analysis of AR incidence …

Global seasonal temperature and precipitation anomalies during El Niño autumn and winter

NK Larkin, DE Harrison - Geophysical Research Letters, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
One of the consequences of the new NOAA definition of El Niño is the identification of a
number of boreal autumns and winters as El Niño seasons that are not conventionally so …