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Increasing intensity of El Niño in the central‐equatorial Pacific

Lee, Tong, McPhaden, Michael J.·2010·Geophysical Research Letters
DOI 10.1029/2010gl044007
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Satellite observations suggest that the intensity of El Niño events in the central equatorial Pacific (CP) has almost doubled in the past three decades, with the strongest warming occurring in 2009–10. This is related to the increasing intensity as well as occurrence frequency of the so‐called CP El Niño events since the 1990s. While sea surface temperature (SST) in the CP region during El Niño years has been increasing, those during neutral and La Niña years have not. Therefore, the well‐documented warming trend of the warm pool in the CP region is primarily a result of more intense El Niño events rather than a general rise of background SST.

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  • Lee and McPhaden [2010] showed a growing intensity of central Pacific warming events during the past decade.

    “Further, Lee and McPhaden, [2010] showed a growing intensity of central Pacific warming events during the past decade, though later studies indicate that this trend likely arises from unresolved natural decadal variability [McPhaden et al., 2011;Yeh et al., 2011].”

    From Impacts of canonical and Modoki El Niño on tropical Atlantic SST (2014) · cites this paper as Lee and McPhaden, [2010]

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Authors
Lee, T., & McPhaden, M. J.
Affiliations
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory (US)
  • NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (US)
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Venue
Geophysical Research Letters
Publisher
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Published
2010-07
Volume
37
Issue
14
ISSN
  • 0094-8276 (ISSN-L)
  • 1944-8007
DOI
10.1029/2010gl044007
OpenAlex
W1851706974
Cited by
767
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FWCI
44.50
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor, 23 d)
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Geophysical Research Letters (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate variability and models
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
Keywords
central equatorial Pacific, sea surface temperature warming, warm pool, La Niña, satellite SST observations

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