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| Title |
Formation Mechanism for 2015/16 Super El Niño
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Scientific Reports, June 2017
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| DOI | 10.1038/s41598-017-02926-3 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Lin Chen, Tim Li, Bin Wang, Lu Wang |
| Abstract |
The extreme El Niño (EN) events in 1997/98 and 1982/83, referred to as super EN, exerted remarkable global influence. A super EN was anticipated on the way in early 2014 but failed to materialize toward the end of 2014. Whilst the scientific community was still puzzling about the cause of the aborted EN event in 2014, the remnants of the decaying warming in late 2014 unexpectedly reignited since February 2015 and grew into a super EN by the end of 2015. Understanding the onset mechanism of the 2015 EN event and its differences from past super EN events is crucial for improving EN prediction in a changing climate. Our observational analyses and modeling studies demonstrate that the principal difference between the 2015 EN and the past super ENs lies in exceptionally strong and consecutive occurrence of westerly wind burst events that turned around unfavorable ocean thermocline conditions in tropical western Pacific in early 2015, reigniting rapidly the surface warming in the eastern Pacific. By August the sea surface temperature anomalies reached a critical amplitude similar to that of the past super ENs; positive atmosphere-ocean feedbacks further amplify this warm episode into a super EN by the end of 2015. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 2 | 33% |
| Australia | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 3 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 81 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Czechia | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 79 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 16 | 20% |
| Researcher | 14 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 10% |
| Student > Master | 7 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 8 | 10% |
| Unknown | 24 | 30% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 30 | 37% |
| Environmental Science | 9 | 11% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 7 | 9% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 3 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 3 | 4% |
| Unknown | 26 | 32% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 35. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 July 2023.
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