Revisiting El Niño Modokis

• Published in: Climate dynamics Vol. 45; no. 11-12; pp. 3527 - 3545
• Main Authors: Marathe, Shamal, Ashok, Karumuri, Swapna, P., Sabin, T. P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.12.2015; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Atmospheric models; climate; Climate change; Climatology; cluster analysis; data collection; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; El Nino; Evaporation; Geophysics/Geodesy; Marine; Ocean currents; Ocean-atmosphere interaction; Oceanography; summer; thermodynamics; winter; IS, Tropical Pacific; Air–sea interaction; El Niño; Teleconnections; Coupled processes; El Niño Modoki

The suggestion that there exist two types of El Niño in the tropical Pacific has generated a debate in the community. Applying various linear and non-linear approaches and composite analysis technique on observed and reanalyzed climate datasets primarily for the 1950–2010 period, we revisit the vari...