Articles:
El Niño
Mark A. Cane
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- Title:
- El Niño
- Author(s):
- Cane, Mark A.
- Date:
- 1986
- Type:
- Articles
- Department:
- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
- Volume:
- 14
- Permanent URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:12904
- Book/Journal Title:
- Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Abstract:
- The connection between El Nino and climate is not restricted merely to the region directly touched by the El Nino current; rather, it is a global pattern of anomalies referred to as the Southern Oscillation. Major El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events, such as those of 1891 or 1982, have profound global ecological, social, arid economic consequences. ENSO is also of scientific interest as the best-defined, most prominent signal in year-to-year climate variability. As such, it is widely perceived as an entree to a broader understanding of the atmosphere and ocean as a coupled climate system.
- Subject(s):
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Atmospheric sciences
Physical oceanography - DOI:
- 10.1146/annurev.ea.14.050186.000355
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