El Niño Warming Is Stronger Than La Niña Cooling. What’s the Right Way to Model This Asymmetry?
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Day-night ocean warming helps explain why El Niño outpaces La Niña in models
Researchers have long known that there is an asymmetry in the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the confluence of wind and water currents that creates warm El Niño events and cooler La Niña events. Large-scale climate models tend to underrepresent this asymmetry for reasons that are still not fully understood. Better modeling of the mechanisms that make El Niño events warmer could both provide insight into Earth's climate system and improve future ENSO predictions.
El Niño Warming Is Stronger Than La Niña Cooling. What’s the Right Way to Model This Asymmetry?
Source: Geophysical Research Letters Researchers have long known that there is an asymmetry in the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the confluence of wind and water currents that create warm El Niño events and cooler La Niña events. Large-scale climate models tend to underrepresent this asymmetry for reasons that are still not fully understood. Better modeling of the mechanisms that push El Niño events to be warmer could both provide insight…
Researchers have long known that there is an asymmetry in the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the confluence of wind and water currents that creates hot El Niño events and colder La Niña events. Large-scale climate models tend to underestimate this asymmetry for reasons that are not [...]
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