Boosting effect of strong western pole of the Indian Ocean Dipole on the decay of El Niño events

Abstract The Indian Ocean Basin (IOB) mode is believed to favor the decay of El Niño via modulating the zonal wind anomalies in the western equatorial Pacific, while the contribution of the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) mode to the following year’s El Niño remains highly controversial. In this study, we...

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Main Authors: Jia Wu, Hanjie Fan, Shuheng Lin, Wenxiu Zhong, Shan He, Noel Keenlyside, Song Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-01-01
Series:npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00554-5