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El Niño/Southern Oscillation (“ENSO”) El Niño – Oscillation Australe (“ENOA”-“ENSO”)

28 Nov 2004 by group

A natural coupled mode of climate variability associated with both surface temperature variations tied to El Niño and atmospheric circulation changes across the equatorial Pacific (see also ‘Southern Oscillation Index’). Term was first coined by Rasmusson and Carpenter (1982). More information on ENSO can be found here.
Mode de variabilité climatique naturelle couplant les variations de température de surface océaniques liées a El Niño et des changements de circulation atmosphérique dans l’océan Pacifique équatorial (voir également : ‘Index d’Oscillation Australe’). Ce terme a été pour la premiere fois employé par Rasmusson et Carpenter (1982). Pour plus d’informations voir ici (en anglais).

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