dc.contributor.author | Cai, Wenju | |
dc.contributor.author | Borlace, Simon | |
dc.contributor.author | Lengaigne, Matthieu | |
dc.contributor.author | van Rensch, Peter | |
dc.contributor.author | Collins, Matthew | |
dc.contributor.author | Vecchi, Gabriel | |
dc.contributor.author | Timmermann, Axel | |
dc.contributor.author | Santoso, Agus | |
dc.contributor.author | McPhaden, Michael J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Wu, Lixin | |
dc.contributor.author | England, Matthew H. | |
dc.contributor.author | Wang, Guojian | |
dc.contributor.author | Guilyardi, Eric | |
dc.contributor.author | Jin, Fei-Fei | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-05-14T10:05:37Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-01-19 | |
dc.description.abstract | El Niño events are a prominent feature of climate variability with global climatic impacts. The 1997/98 episode, often referred to as 'the climate event of the twentieth century', and the 1982/83 extreme El Niño, featured a pronounced eastward extension of the west Pacific warm pool and development of atmospheric convection, and hence a huge rainfall increase, in the usually cold and dry equatorial eastern Pacific. Such a massive reorganization of atmospheric convection, which we define as an extreme El Niño, severely disrupted global weather patterns, affecting ecosystems, agriculture, tropical cyclones, drought, bushfires, floods and other extreme weather events worldwide. Potential future changes in such extreme El Niño occurrences could have profound socio-economic consequences. Here we present climate modelling evidence for a doubling in the occurrences in the future in response to greenhouse warming. We estimate the change by aggregating results from climate models in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phases 3 (CMIP3; ref.) and 5 (CMIP5; ref.) multi-model databases, and a perturbed physics ensemble. The increased frequency arises from a projected surface warming over the eastern equatorial Pacific that occurs faster than in the surrounding ocean waters, facilitating more occurrences of atmospheric convection in the eastern equatorial region. © 2014 Macmillan Publishers Limited. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Australian Climate Change Science Program | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Goyder Research Institute | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | CSIRO Office of Chief Executive Science Leader award | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Pacific Australia Climate Change Science Adaptation Programme | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | NOAA: PMEL contribution 4049 | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | NERC SAPRISE project | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | NSF | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | ARC Laureate Fellowship scheme | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | China National Natural Science Foundation Key Project (41130859) | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | gence Nationale pour la Recherche project ANR-10-Blanc-616 METRO | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 4, pp. 111 - 116 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/nclimate2100 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | NE/I022841/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 1049219 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | FL100100214 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/17214 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Nature Publishing Group | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2100 | en_GB |
dc.title | Increasing frequency of extreme El Niño events due to greenhouse warming | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2015-05-14T10:05:37Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1758-678X | |
dc.description | Journal Article | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1758-6798 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Nature Climate Change | en_GB |