The warm Blob in the northeast Pacific—the bridge leading to the 2015/16 El Niño

We address the occurrence of the warm anomaly, known as the Blob, that developed from late 2013 to 2015 in the northeast Pacific and its connection with the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) variability. The warm Blob results from the enhanced second ocean–atmosphere (O–A) coupled mode of variabil...

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Main Authors: Yu-Heng Tseng, Ruiqiang Ding, Xiao-meng Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2017-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa67c3