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Articles on El Niño Southern Oscillation
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El Niño can affect agriculture, marine life and economies in profound ways, including slowing commerce at the Panama Canal. This El Niño is likely to be the strongest in over a century.
Scientists went to the heart of the El Niño pattern to learn from living and fossil corals. The results show El Niño’s intensifying coincides with global warming.
Climate expert Ioana Colfescu talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about predicting the impact of El Niño.
More than 90% of the heat trapped by greenhouses goes into the ocean. But what happens in the oceans doesn’t stay there.
El Niño can trigger intense periods of extreme ocean warming known as marine heat waves that can devastate marine life.
Twin cyclones helped trigger massive ocean warming in the Pacific. But whether that leads to a strong El Niño is still uncertain. Here’s what you need to know.
Past El Niño events have brought drought and disruption to New Zealand. What might the coming one spell?
New research shows how La Niña and El Niño weather patterns can affect pollen levels, with a shorter and less severe hay fever season during a rainier La Niña.
NOAA’s preseason forecast is the 30,000-foot view of what’s likely. Here’s what forecasters will be watching for over the weeks and months ahead.
Moderate changes over millennia are being sped up by emissions from burning fossil fuels.
Climate change is pushing crocodiles outside their comfort zone, and there may be a limit to how much their natural cooling behaviours can help them beat the heat.
Human-driven ocean warming is increasingly overwhelming El Niño, La Niña, and other natural climate patterns.
The oceans have been much warmer than average for the past two years, and the planet just set another global heat record. What’s going on?
Reports of a rare summer La Niña are premature. It is also foolish to look at such climate drivers in isolation. But seasonal forecasting is becoming more complicated as the planet warms.
Get set for a hotter and wetter summer this season in Australia. The long-range forecast from the Bureau of Meteorology today points to above average rainfall, especially in December, and warmth.
With Hurricanes Helene and Milton reminding us of the destructive force of such storms, the tropical cyclone forecast for Australia is for an average number but with a higher risk of severe cyclones.
Australia is facing climate hazards on all fronts this spring and summer. Climate scientist Andrew King walks us through the Bureau of Meteorology’s new national outlook.
El Niño tends to cause heatwaves and droughts in southern Africa particularly.
It’s rare to see both Nina’s at the same time, but both appeared to be developing in 2024. That could help soften hurricane season, but don’t bet on it.
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ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Climate Science, ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Associate, UNSW
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Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Our Future Oceans and Scientia Professor in Oceanography, UNSW
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Senior Research, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change; Professor of Ocean and Climate Dynamics, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Honorary Associate Professor of Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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Chief Research Scientist, Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO, CSIRO
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Atmospheric Science Educator, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Manager Research and Development, Country Fire Authority
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