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• El Nino drives spectacular flower show

  Author:Richard A. LovettFrom:Science (Vol. 280, Issue 5372) Peer-Reviewed

  June 26, 1998672 words Brief article Tucson, Arizona--The serrated Tucson Mountains that rise above their namesake city are usually hospitable only to cacti and other hardy desert life-forms. This spring, however, the Tucsons' volcanic soil--along with much...

• Long-range forecasting: truth or consequences

  Author:John WalshFrom:Science (Vol. 231) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 21, 19861,004 words Article Long-Range Forecasting: Truth or Consequences A slow warming of the waters of the eastern Pacific in the Southern Hemisphere in recent months has set atmospheric scientists talking about the possible advent of another...

• Correction: ENSO, Nest Predation Risk, Food Abundance, and Male Status Fail to Explain Annual Variations in the Apparent Survival Rate of a Migratory Songbird

  From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 10, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 26, 2015238 words Brief article, Corre... 1270LAuthor(s): The PLOS ONE Staff S1 Table, S2 Table, and S3 Table appear incorrectly. Please view the correct S1 Table, S2 Table, and S3 Table below. Supporting Information S1 Table Parameter estimates ([beta] i )...

• Interaction between the ENSO and the Asian monsoon in a coral record of tropical climate

  Authors:C.D. Charles, D.E. Hunter, and Richard G. FairbanksFrom:Science (Vol. 277, Issue 5328) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 15, 19973,230 words Article The oxygen isotopic composition of a banded coral from the western equatorial Indian Ocean provides a 150-year-long history of the relation between the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon and the Asian...

• Kernel smoothing of rainfall data from the Northeast of Brazil/ Kernel smoothing dos dados de chuva no Nordeste

  Authors:Nyedja F.M. Barbosa, Borko D. Stosic, Tatijana Stosic, Pabricio M.O. Lopes, Geber B. de A. Moura, and Jose S.P. MeloFrom:Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agricola e Ambiental (Vol. 18, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed

  July 20142,947 words Article The rainfall over Northeast Brazil is quite complex and is considered seasonal, besides suffering strong influences of El Nino, La Nina and other weather systems such as dipole, acting on the ocean basins Tropical...

• State of the Climate in 2015

  Authors:Jessica Blunden and Derek S. ArndtFrom:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (Vol. 97, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 201615,105 words Report 1570L3. GLOBAL OCEANS--G. C. Johnson and A. R. Parsons, Eds. a. Overview--G. C. Johnson The significant 2015 El Nino included a reduction in Pacific trade winds with anomalous cross-equatorial southerly surface winds...

• Interannual correlations between sea surface temperature and concentration of chlorophyll pigment off Punta Eugenia, Baja California, during different remote forcing conditions

  Authors:H. Herrera-Cervantes, S. E. Lluch-Cota, and D. B. Lluch-CotaFrom:Ocean Science (Vol. 10, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  May 14, 201431 words Brief article Byline: H. Herrera-Cervantes, S. E. Lluch-Cota, D. B. Lluch-Cota, G. Gutié,rrez-de-Velasco To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the full-text of this article, please visit this link:...

• Some factors that influence seasonal precipitation in Argentinean Chaco

  Authors:Marcela Hebe Gonzalez, Maria Laura Cariaga, and Maria de los Milagros SkansiFrom:Advances in MeteorologyPeer-Reviewed

  September-October 20125,026 words Report 1420LThe Chaco plain region in Argentina is located in the north of the country and east of Los Andes where the main activity is the agriculture. As such activity is highly affected by interannual rainfall variability, the...

• The role of Prosopis in ecological and landscape change in the Samaca Basin, Lower Ica Valley, South Coast Peru from the early horizon to the late intermediate period

  Authors:David G. Beresford-Jones, Susana Arce T., Oliver Q. Whaley, and Alex J. Chepstow-LustyFrom:Latin American Antiquity (Vol. 20, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  June 200914,344 words Report 1450LThe lower lea Valley on the hyperarid south coast of Peru is today largely depopulated and bereft of cultivation, yet its extensive archaeological remains attest to substantial prehispanic populations. This paper...

• Analysis and discussion of atmospheric precursor of European heat summers

  Authors:Christine Trager-Chatterjee, Richard W. Muller, and Jorg BendixFrom:Advances in MeteorologyPeer-Reviewed

  Annual 20147,619 words Report 1470LThe prediction of summers with notable droughts and heatwaves on the seasonal scale is challenging, especially in extratropical regions, since their development is not yet fully understood. Thus, monitoring and analysis...

• THE EXTREMELY WET MARCH OF 2017 IN PERU: While extreme rainfall of March 2017 in Peru was favored by the anomalously warm ocean, human influence is also estimated to make such events at least 1.5 times more likely.

  Authors:Nikolaos Christidis, Richard A. Betts, and Peter A. StottFrom:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (Vol. 100, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 20192,431 words Report 1590LINTRODUCTION. Peru's rainy season falls in the first quarter of the year, often dubbed the "landslide season," with the direst downpours typically occurring in March (Lavado Casimiro et al. 2012). The rains of March...

• Sringtime Forecast Barrier Breached: Aleutian Low Impacts Next Winter's ENSO.

  From:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (Vol. 101, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 2020421 words Article 1590LThe El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and its large sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies in the tropical central-eastern Pacific is the strongest air-sea coupled system in the tropics. Occurrence of an ENSO event...

• A proxy modelling approach to assess the potential of extracting ENSO signal from tropical Pacific planktonic foraminifera.

  Authors:Brett Metcalfe, Bryan C. Lougheed, Claire Waelbroeck, and Didier M. RocheFrom:Climate of the Past (Vol. 16, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20, 2020293 words Brief article A complete understanding of past El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) fluctuations is important for the future predictions of regional climate using climate models. One approach to reconstructing past ENSO dynamics uses...

• Linking ENSO and heavy rainfall events over coastal British Columbia through a weather pattern classification

  Authors:P. Brigode, P. Bernardara, E. Paquet, F. Garavaglia, J. Gailhard, and P. RibsteinFrom:Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 17, 201335 words Brief article Byline: P. Brigode, Z. MiÄ,‡,oviÄ,‡,, P. Bernardara, E. Paquet, F. Garavaglia, J. Gailhard, P. Ribstein To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the full-text of this article, please visit...

• Impact of global warming on ENSO phase change

  Authors:W. Cabos Narvaez and F. Alvarez-GarciaFrom:Advances in Geosciences (Vol. 6, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 9, 2006143 words Brief article We compare the physical mechanisms involved in the generation and decay of ENSO events in a control (present day conditions) and Scenario (Is92a, IPCC 1996) simulations performed with the coupled ocean-atmosphere GCM...

• A waveform skewness index for measuring time series nonlinearity and its applications to the ENSO-Indian monsoon relationship.

  Authors:Justin Schulte, Frederick Policelli, and Benjamin ZaitchikFrom:Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics (Vol. 29, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 10, 2022260 words Brief article Many geophysical time series possess nonlinear characteristics that reflect the underlying physics of the phenomena the time series describe. The nonlinear character of times series can change with time, so it is...

• Interdecadal Variability of Summer Precipitation Efficiency in East Asia

  Authors:Jian Wang, Shu Gui, Anqi Ma, Ruowen Yang, and Qi ZhangFrom:Advances in MeteorologyPeer-Reviewed

  Dec. 31, 20199,867 words Article 1470LPrecipitation efficiency (PE) is a crucial physical quantity in convective processes, describing the efficiency of rainfall generation from cloud detrainment. Although the importance of PE in extreme precipitation...

• Signs of success in forecasting El Nino. (Climate Prediction)

  Author:Richard A. KerrFrom:Science (Vol. 297, Issue 5581) Peer-Reviewed

  July 26, 2002659 words Brief article El Nino, the sleeping giant of climate, awakened earlier this month, according to government scientists. Six months ago, those same researchers went out on a limb when they recognized stirrings around the Pacific as...

• The effects of El Nino on the foraging behavior of lactating California sea lions (Zalophus californianus californianus) during the nonbreeding season

  Authors:S.R. Melin, R.L. DeLong, and D.B. SiniffFrom:Canadian Journal of Zoology (Vol. 86, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 20089,162 words Report 1530LAbstract: We compared the nonbreeding-season foraging behavior of lactating California sea lions (Zalophus californianus californianus (Lesson, 1828)) at San Miguel Island, California, during El Nino conditions in 1993...

• Is El Nino Changing?

  Authors:Alexey V. Fedorov and S. George PhilanderFrom:Science (Vol. 288, Issue 5473) Peer-Reviewed

  June 16, 20004,649 words Article Recent advances in observational and theoretical studies of El Nino have shed light on controversies concerning the possible effect of global warming on this phenomenon over the past few decades and in the future. El...