Increasing frequency of extreme El Niño events due to greenhouse warming

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 111-116

  Cai, Wenju ^a,b   Borlace, Simon ^a   Lengaigne, Matthieu ^c   Van Rensch, Peter ^a   Collins, Mat ^d   Vecchi, Gabriel ^e   Timmermann, Axel ^f   Santoso, Agus ^g   Mcphaden, Michael J ^h   Wu, Lixin ^b   England, Matthew H ^g   Wang, Guojian ^a,b   Guilyardi, Eric ^c,f   Jin, Fei Fei ^e  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE ECOSYSTEM; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84896815971     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2100     Document Type: Article

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