Increased frequency of extreme La Niña events under greenhouse warming

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 132-137

  Cai, Wenju ^a,b   Wang, Guojian ^a,b   Santoso, Agus ^c   Mcphaden, Michael J ^d   Wu, Lixin ^b   Jin, Fei Fei ^e   Timmermann, Axel ^f   Collins, Mat ^g   Vecchi, Gabriel ^h   Lengaigne, Matthieu ⁱ   England, Matthew H ^c   Dommenget, Dietmar ^j   Takahashi, Ken ^k   Guilyardi, Eric ^i,l  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^h NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^j MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^k INSTITUTO GEOFÍSICO DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

^l UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GLOBAL WARMING; LA NINA; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84923066865     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2492     Document Type: Article

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