The butterfly effect suggests that small changes in a system can have a large impact on eventual outcomes. One metaphor used ...

Natural oceanic occurrences like El Niño and La ... for the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project found a near doubling in the frequency of future extreme La Niña events, from one in every ...

Forecasters at the National Weather Service issued a La Niña watch Thursday ... as did the wind pattern associated with El Niño. Meanwhile, climate prediction models are suggesting that El ...

El Niño is part of the natural climate phenomenon called the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO). It has two opposite states: El Niño and La Niña ... Some climate models suggest, external ...

The research team developed a new conceptual model that uses fundamental physics to help predict whether El Nino or La Nina will emerge. Forecasters have been attempting to better climate modeling ...

(Fiona Martin via Courthouse News) (CN) — Climate scientists are bracing for potentially lengthy El Niño and La Niña ... and 2011 — creating more “La Niña-like” conditions — such data is at odds with ...

“This is the most substantial study to date that has used climate models to answer the question of whether greenhouse forcing was increasing the intensity of El Nino/La Nina,” he told The ...

Will we see a flip to El Niño (and thus a whole new snow pattern), a continued neutral lull, or an unexpected encore from La Niña? The long-range ENSO model guidance is a bit like an unsettled ...

El Nino years ... (average of the models) is past +2.0 deg C. Whether it can sustain that anomaly for 5 consecutive overlapping months (the definition of an El Nino or La Nina episode) at super ...