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Zhengyao Lu

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A review of paleo El Niño-Southern Oscillation

Författare

  • Zhengyao Lu
  • Zhengyu Liu
  • Jiang Zhu
  • Kim M. Cobb

Summary, in English

The Earth has seen El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-the leading mode of interannual climate variability-for at least millennia and likely over millions of years. This paper reviews previous studies from perspectives of both paleoclimate proxy data (from traditional sediment records to the latest high-resolution oxygen isotope records) and model simulations (including earlier intermediate models to the latest isotope-enabled coupled models). It summarizes current understanding of ENSO's past evolution during both interglacial and glacial periods and its response to external climatic forcings such as volcanic, orbital, ice-sheet and greenhouse gas forcings. Due to the intrinsic irregularity of ENSO and its complicated relationship with other climate phenomena, reconstructions and model simulations of ENSO variability are subject to inherent difficulties in interpretations and biases. Resolving these challenges through new data syntheses, new statistical methods, more complex climate model simulations as well as direct model-data comparisons can potentially better constrain uncertainty regarding ENSO's response to future global warming.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap
  • MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system

Publiceringsår

2018-03-30

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Atmosphere

Volym

9

Issue

4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

MDPI AG

Ämne

  • Climate Research

Nyckelord

  • Climate model
  • ENSO
  • Paleoclimate
  • Proxy data

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 2073-4433