Title: Chapter 40 Interannual climate variability associated with the El Niño/ Southern Oscillation
Abstract: The Southern Oscillation is the dominant global climate signal on time scales of a few months to a few years. Its relative contribution to interannual climate variability is largest in the tropical Pacific where at irregular intervals of 2–10 years it enters an extreme “low-index” phase now referred to as an El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) episode. The characteristic events and evolution of an ENSO episode, which are intimately tied to the seasonal cycle, are reviewed with emphasis on observational evidence of large-scale sea-air interaction in the tropical Pacific. The 1982–83 ENSO episode was one of the strongest of the past 100 years. Its intensity and peculiar time history have stimulated important new developments in the description and understanding of this phenomenon.
Publication Year: 1985
Publication Date: 1985-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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