"The research published today in Science Advances has found that the state of the Pacific Ocean at the beginning of a forecast plays a critical, and often overlooked, role in determining whether long-range predictions of ENSO will be accurate." www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
eurekalert.orgScientists find key to predicting El Niño 12 months aheadScientists have identified the conditions that make it possible to predict some El Niño and La Niña events up to a year in advance, potentially giving communities and decision-makers sig...
El Niño/La Niña famously cannot be reliably predicted more than ~6 months in advance due to the "predictability barrier": this is a chaotic system! New research from Australia (CSIRO/UMelb) just showed it *can* sometimes be predicted much earlier, up to a full year! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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