Is El Nino changing?

By A. Fedorov, S. George Philander. Science, 2000

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Tropical Pacific Decadal Variability and Its Relation to Decadal Modulations of ENSO (2004, background): “…variability tends to be associated with periods in which the thermocline is deeper in the eastern equatorial Pacific, while weaker ENSO variability tends to be associated with a shallower thermocline (Kirtman and Schopf 1998; Kleeman et al. 1999; Barnett et al. 1999; Federov and Philander 2000).”
Climate change: can we predict the impacts on plant pathology and pest management? (2004, background): “Since continued global warming may alter the frequency and (or) intensity of ENSO events (Fedorov and Philander 2000; Timmermann et al. 1999), a better understanding of the associations between disease and ENSO (and other interannual climate cycles) may lead to improved predictability of plant disea”
A mechanism for decadal changes of ENSO behavior: roles of background wind changes (2002, background): “6.3 Why the propagation of SST anomalies changes Propagation of SST anomalies depends primarily on competitive effects between vertical temperature advection, which supports eastward propagation, and the zonal temperature advection that promotes westward propagation (Fedorov and Philander 2000).”
Continued declines of black abalone along the coast of California: are mass mortalities related to El Niño events? (2002, background): “With the increase in the frequency and duration of El Niño events in recent decades (Trenberth & Hoar 1996, Fedorov & Philander 2000) and the escalation of anthropogenic disturbance along the world’s coastlines, disease is expected to play an increasingly important role in structuring ecological…”
The response of the coupled tropical ocean–atmosphere to westerly wind bursts (2002, background): “Note that after the rst year, the dominant time-scale is that of the normal mode which has a shorter period in the case of point B than point A, in accord with the linear stability analysis of Fedorov and Philander (2000, 2001).”
Drought stress and tropical forest woody seedlings: effect on community structure and composition (2005, background): “…(Diaz et al. 1989; Kumar et al. 2004; Malhi & Wright 2004), and several recent severe 804 D. E. Bunker & W. P. Carson © 2005 British Ecological Society, Journal of Ecology, 93, 794–806 ENSO events suggest a long-term increase in ENSO activity (Trenberth & Hoar 1996, 1997; Fedorov & Philander 2000).”
The influence of a weakening of the atlantic meridional overturning circulation on ENSO (2006, background): “2 (top left), during the spring season the equatorial thermocline is shallower, which might lead to an enhancement of the thermocline feedback (Galanti et al. 2002), thereby enhancing the effect of a wind stress anomaly on the SST.”
Climate change and amphibian declines: is there a link? (2003, background): “La Niña, the opposite of El Niño, refers to a situation in which anomalously cold waters cover the surface of the equatorial Pacific Ocean (Trenberth, 1997; Fedorov & Philander, 2000).”
Indian Ocean Dipole Response to Global Warming: Analysis of Ocean–Atmospheric Feedbacks in a Coupled Model* (2009, background): “…studies of the response of El Niñ o–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) to global warming (Meehl et al. 1993; Knutson et al. 1997; Timmermann et al. 1999; Fedorov and Philander 2000; Collins 2005; van Oldenborgh et al. 2005; Capotondi et al. 2006; An et al. 2008), but considerable uncertainties remain…”