El Niño Southern Oscillation
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2015) | Viewed by 27586
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Earth’s most dominant source of year-to-year climate variability, exerts significant impact on the environment and socio-economy worldwide. Originating in the tropical Pacific Ocean through the Bjerknes-coupled feedback, the rise and demise of ENSO events involve significant changes to atmospheric and oceanic circulations both within and outside the tropical Pacific. The associated large shifts in circulation patterns elevate occurrence likelihood of extreme conditions and weather events, such as hurricanes, dust storms, forest fires, floods, and droughts. Ability to predict ENSO well in advance is crucial to anticipate its impacts, manage risks, and maximize opportunities, especially in a global climate that is undergoing rapid change. However, despite decades of research, gaps remain in our knowledge about ENSO. These gaps should gradually narrow as new observations, proxies, improved models, and theories become available.
This Special Issue calls for papers that offer further insights into the physical aspects of ENSO including, but not limited to, coupled feedback processes, role of clouds, seasonal phase locking, interactions with remote variability, ENSO precursors, predictability, teleconnections, and impacts, as well as changes in any of these aspects under external forcing. Modeling, observation, theory, and paleo-focused papers on this topic are welcomed.
Dr. Agus Santoso
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- el niño
- la niña
- ENSO
- southern Oscillation
- tropical climate variability
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