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5 November 2025

The El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is one of the most important climate phenomena on Earth due to its impacts on the global atmospheric circulation. This paper conducts a comprehensive analysis of the spatiotemporal variations and c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate Change and Climate Variability, and Their Impact on Extreme Events (2nd Edition))
  • Review
  • Open Access
68 Citations
29,533 Views
32 Pages

19 July 2018

The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is an important mode of climatic variability that exerts a discernible impact on ecosystems and society through alterations in climate patterns. For this reason, ENSO has attracted much interest in the c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,372 Views
17 Pages

El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Implication towards Crocodile River Water Quality in South Africa

  • Babalwa Gqomfa,
  • Thabang Maphanga,
  • Takalani Terry Phungela,
  • Benett Siyabonga Madonsela and ,
  • Karabo Malakane and
  • Stanley Lekata
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 July 2023

This paper investigates the impact of ENSO on water quality by looking at COD, SS, and Escherichia coli along the Crocodile River. Water samples were collected between 2016 and 2021 at three strategic sites on the river and were tested in an accredit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,894 Views
28 Pages

1 August 2023

Malaysia’s location in Southeast Asia exposes it to various weather patterns influenced by El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), monsoons, the Madden–Julian Oscillation (MJO), and the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD). To overcome the...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,739 Views
19 Pages

Much research has raised concerns about how a warming planet will interact with natural cyclical climatic variations, and the implications for the resilience and vulnerability of coastal communities. As the anticipated effects of climate change will...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Anthropological Reflections on Crisis and Disaster)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,036 Views
16 Pages

22 April 2019

Using reanalysis and the sea surface temperature (SST) analysis, the combined impact of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) on the northern winter stratosphere is investigated. The warm and weak stratosphe...

(This article belongs to the Section Meteorology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,365 Views
14 Pages

Influence of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on the Harvest Date and Viticultural Bioclimatic Indices in Northern Chile

  • Gastón Gutiérrez-Gamboa,
  • Carolina Pañitrur-De la Fuente,
  • Marisol Reyes,
  • Antonio Ibacache-González and
  • Nicolás Verdugo-Vásquez

El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has been identified as a key factor influencing grapevine phenology and harvest timing in South America. Nevertheless, few long-term analyses have explored its varietal impacts in hyper-arid viticultur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Viticulture and Oenology—Adaptation in a Changing Climate)
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  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,739 Views
16 Pages

2 July 2018

El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) teleconnections present a hemispheric dipole pattern in both rainfall and vegetation between eastern and southern Africa. We analyze precipitation and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) departures...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,229 Views
16 Pages

14 August 2023

El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has remarkable impacts on Tibetan Plateau (TP) summer precipitation. However, recently identified ENSO spatial diversity brings complexity to these impacts. This study investigates the distinct impacts...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Land-Atmosphere Interactions and Effects on the Climate of the Tibetan Plateau and Surrounding Regions III)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,181 Views
17 Pages

27 June 2023

Understanding the influence of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is of critical significance for seasonal prediction. The present study found that both Niño3.4 sea surface temperature...

(This article belongs to the Topic A Themed Issue in Memory of Academician Duzheng Ye (1916–2013))
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,344 Views
31 Pages

Impacts of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Events on Trophodynamic Structure and Function in Taiwan Bank Marine Ecosystem

  • Po-Yuan Hsiao,
  • Kuo-Wei Lan,
  • Wen-Hao Lee,
  • Ting-Yu Liang and ,
  • Cheng-Hsin Liao and
  • Nan-Jay Su
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 September 2024

Taiwan Bank (TB) is located in the southern Taiwan Strait (TS). The uplifted continental slope and bottom currents in this area result in the formation of upwelling areas, which serve as crucial fishing grounds. Climate-induced fluctuations in fish p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,487 Views
13 Pages

Climate change manifests itself in rising temperatures across the continent and affects the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) by changing sea surface temperatures and atmospheric circulation. This affects precipitation and temperature...

(This article belongs to the Section Financial Markets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,535 Views
17 Pages

12 September 2024

The Indonesian Throughflow (ITF) is significantly modulated by Indo-Pacific climate forcing, especially the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD). However, when ENSO and IOD occur concurrently, they tend t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Air-Sea Interaction and Climate Variability in the Ocean: Observations and Modeling Based on Remote Sensing Techniques)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,416 Views
17 Pages

27 April 2025

The ability of a general circulation model (GCM) to capture the variability of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is not only a scientific issue of climate model performance, but also critical for climate change and variability impact s...

(This article belongs to the Section Meteorology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
417 Views
13 Pages

Long-Term Evidence of ENSO-Driven Rodent Population Dynamics in a Natural Plague Focus of Southwestern China

  • Chao Su,
  • Yongman Guo,
  • Yunqin Shen,
  • Yuqiong Li and ,
  • Liqiong Su,
  • Lei Xu and
  • Zihou Gao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

3 August 2026

Climate variability can modulate zoonotic disease risk by altering interactions among wildlife hosts, vectors, and human environments, yet long-term evidence linking large-scale climate oscillations to natural plague systems remains scarce. We invest...

(This article belongs to the Section Ecology and Conservation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,264 Views
19 Pages

2 June 2023

Precipitation extremes driven by the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) are one of the critical ways in which the ENSO impacts the global climate, specifically in the tropical Pacific, where they have the potential to cause extreme weat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
415 Views
18 Pages

Decadal Variability of the Lagged IOD–ENSO Relationship in CMIP6 Models

  • Hualong Zhu,
  • Yutong Zhang,
  • Kaijie Duan and
  • Jiaqing Xue

24 August 2026

The Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) and the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) are two major modes of interannual climate variability that interact across the Indo-Pacific region. Although the autumn IOD is known to influence ENSO with a lag of abo...

(This article belongs to the Section Climatology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,856 Views
19 Pages

Symmetry of Energy Divergence Anomalies Associated with the El Niño-Southern Oscillation

  • Evan Kutta,
  • Jason A. Hubbart,
  • Timothy P. Eichler and
  • Anthony R. Lupo

1 September 2018

The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a dominant source of global climate variability. The effects of this phenomenon alter the flow of heat from tropical to polar latitudes, resulting in weather and climate anomalies that are difficult t...

(This article belongs to the Section Meteorology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,337 Views
23 Pages

15 September 2025

The El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the most consequential mode of interannual climate variability on the planet, yet its prediction has become complex due to the inability of classical paradigms to explain the observed co-evoluti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate Change Over the Tibetan Plateau and Surroundings on Decadal to Sub-Orbital Timescales and Its Driving Mechanisms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,700 Views
23 Pages

Baseflow Variation in Southern Taiwan Basin

  • Hsin-Yu Chen,
  • Yu-Hsiang Hsu,
  • Chia-Chi Huang and
  • Hsin-Fu Yeh

15 February 2023

Baseflow is among the most important components of streamflow. It is the main source of streamflow from groundwater systems in the dry season and also plays an important role as a water resource in the ecological environment and for human activities....

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,350 Views
14 Pages

Investigation of the Correlation between Enterovirus Infection and the Climate Factor Complex Including the Ping-Year Factor and El Niño-Southern Oscillation in Taiwan

  • Hsueh-Wen Yu,
  • Chia-Hsuan Kuan,
  • Liang-Wei Tseng,
  • Hsing-Yu Chen and ,
  • Meg-Yen Tsai and
  • Yu-Sheng Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 March 2024

Enterovirus infection and enterovirus infection with severe complications (EVSC) are critical issues in several aspects. However, there is no suitable predictive tool for these infections. A climate factor complex (CFC) containing several climate fac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue An Update on Enterovirus Research)
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  • Open Access
1,397 Views
14 Pages

Influence of Both La Nina and Island Isolation During COVID-19 on the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases in New Caledonia

  • Pierre-Henri Moury,
  • Ann-Claire Gourinat,
  • Maria Suveges,
  • Méryl Delrieu and ,
  • Myrielle Dupont-Rouzeyrol,
  • Christophe Menkes,
  • Nathanaëlle Soler,
  • Cécile Cazorla,
  • Antoine Biron and
  • Nicolas Ray
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

Background and Objectives: New Caledonia, an archipelago in the South Pacific, experienced an unprecedented conjunction of prolonged border closure during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020 to 2022) and marked influence of the El Niño/Southern Oscill...

(This article belongs to the Topic Surveillance Systems and Predictive Analytics for Epidemics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,694 Views
24 Pages

8 May 2021

There are no studies related to the influence of the coupling between the South Atlantic Convergence Zone (SACZ) and El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) pattern variability on future changes in the austral summer (December-February, DJF) precipitatio...

(This article belongs to the Section Climate Dynamics and Modelling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,307 Views
17 Pages

15 February 2020

Southeast China, a non-core region influenced by the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), has been seldom investigated before. However, the occurrence of ENSO will affect the redistribution of precipitation and the temperature (T) spatia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,233 Views
20 Pages

28 November 2021

The spatial–temporal distribution of the global gravity wave (GW) potential energy (Ep) at the lower stratosphere of 20–35 km is studied using the dry temperature profiles from multi- Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) radio occult...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Carbon, Water and Climate Monitoring Using Space Geodesy Observations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,685 Views
16 Pages

Time-Series Study of Associations between Rates of People Affected by Disasters and the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Cycle

  • Holly Ching Yu Lam,
  • Andy Haines,
  • Glenn McGregor,
  • Emily Ying Yang Chan and
  • Shakoor Hajat

The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a major driver of climatic variability that can have far reaching consequences for public health globally. We explored whether global, regional and country-level rates of people affected by natural di...

(This article belongs to the Section Global Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,925 Views
27 Pages

Associating Climatic Trends with Stochastic Modelling of Flow Sequences

  • Sandhya Patidar,
  • Eleanor Tanner,
  • Bankaru-Swamy Soundharajan and
  • Bhaskar SenGupta

Water is essential to all lifeforms including various ecological, geological, hydrological, and climatic processes/activities. With the changing climate, associated El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events appear to stimulate highly uncertain patte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,516 Views
19 Pages

18 January 2018

This study explores the relationship between the Agulhas Current system and El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events. Specifically, it addresses monthly to yearly variations in Agulhas leakage where the Agulhas Current sheds waters into the Atlanti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sea Surface Temperature Retrievals from Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,647 Views
22 Pages

31 May 2023

The World Health Organization has reported numerous fatalities, primarily among urban residents, during El Niño events. This study employed remote sensing technology to investigate the influence of the El Niño Southern Oscillation on te...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainability in Geographic Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,676 Views
21 Pages

24 June 2020

Areas cultivated with Hass avocado crops in Colombia have growth rapidly. One of the major limitations is the avocado wilt complex disease (AWC) caused by biotic and abiotic factors which have increased under the El Niño southern oscillation E...

(This article belongs to the Section Plant Response to Abiotic Stress and Climate Change)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,909 Views
19 Pages

El Niño Southern Oscillation is one of the significant phenomena that drives global climate variability, showing a relationship with extreme events. Reliable forecasting of ENSO phases can minimize the risks in many critical areas, including w...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Oceanography)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,426 Views
22 Pages

20 August 2021

Vegetation phenology is an integrative indicator of environmental change, and remotely–sensed data provide a powerful way to monitor land surface vegetation responses to climatic fluctuations across various spatiotemporal scales. In this study, we sy...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Remote Sensing)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,162 Views
9 Pages

31 July 2023

The Peruvian Altiplano Region (RAP) is a high plateau area surrounded by the Western and Eastern Andes mountain ranges. This study examines the relationship between extreme droughts in the region and the interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO) over th...

(This article belongs to the Section Meteorology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,632 Views
16 Pages

14 November 2025

This study examines how ENSO episodes affect maize price volatility transmission between the United States and South Africa. Using daily price data, from 1997 to 2024, for U.S. corn and South African white and yellow maize futures, the study employs...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Price and Trade Dynamics in Agricultural Commodity Markets)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,867 Views
15 Pages

11 April 2024

In this study, we investigate the connection between planetary equatorial waves, modulated by the Indian Ocean dipole (IOD) and El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), and the interannual variabilities of the salinity distribution in the Bay of B...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Approaches for the Detection and Analysis in Coastal and River Delta Regions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,894 Views
32 Pages

Meteorological Drought Analysis and Return Periods over North and West Africa and Linkage with El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO)

  • Malak Henchiri,
  • Tertsea Igbawua,
  • Tehseen Javed,
  • Yun Bai and ,
  • Sha Zhang,
  • Bouajila Essifi,
  • Fanan Ujoh and
  • Jiahua Zhang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

23 November 2021

Droughts are one of the world’s most destructive natural disasters. In large regions of Africa, droughts can have strong environmental and socioeconomic impacts. Understanding the mechanism that drives drought and predicting its variability is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,306 Views
25 Pages

A Century of Drought in Hawaiʻi: Geospatial Analysis and Synthesis across Hydrological, Ecological, and Socioeconomic Scales

  • Abby G. Frazier,
  • Christian P. Giardina,
  • Thomas W. Giambelluca,
  • Laura Brewington and ,
  • Yi-Leng Chen,
  • Pao-Shin Chu,
  • Lucas Berio Fortini,
  • Danielle Hall,
  • David A. Helweg and
  • Clay Trauernicht
  • + 12 authors+ 7 authors

23 September 2022

Drought is a prominent feature of Hawaiʻi’s climate. However, it has been over 30 years since the last comprehensive meteorological drought analysis, and recent drying trends have emphasized the need to better understand drought dynamics a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,661 Views
18 Pages

4 May 2020

This study analyzed the sensitivity of rainfall patterns in South China and the Indochina Peninsula (ICP) using statistical simulations of observational data. Quantitative changes in rainfall patterns over the ICP were examined for both wet and dry s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing of Hydro-Meteorology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,861 Views
11 Pages

The Southwest China Flood of July 2018 and Its Causes

  • Lijuan Wang,
  • Lin Wang,
  • Yuyun Liu,
  • Wei Gu and ,
  • Peiqiang Xu and
  • Wen Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Excessive rainfall was observed over Southwest China in July 2018, leading to floods in several major tributaries of the Yangtze River and landslide and debris flow in the neighboring provinces. The rainfall during 7–11 July was unusually heavy...

(This article belongs to the Section Climatology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,887 Views
12 Pages

Background: The long-term effect of abnormal climate on cognitive function and socioeconomic status remains elusive. We explored the association between prenatal exposure to climate anomaly and adulthood cognitive function and job reputation. Methods...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,739 Views
30 Pages

27 May 2024

The results of numerical experiments with a chemistry–climate model of the lower and middle atmosphere are presented to study the sensitivity of the polar stratosphere of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres to sea surface temperature (SST) va...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,574 Views
14 Pages

Evaluation of Ocean Color Algorithms to Retrieve Chlorophyll-a Concentration in the Mexican Pacific Ocean off the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico

  • Patricia Alvarado-Graef,
  • Beatriz Martín-Atienza,
  • Ramón Sosa-Ávalos,
  • Reginaldo Durazo and
  • Rafael Hernández-Walls

15 May 2024

Mathematical algorithms relate satellite data of ocean color with the surface Chlorophyll-a concentration (Chl-a), a proxy of phytoplankton biomass. These mathematical tools work best when they are adapted to the unique bio-optical properties of a pa...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)
  • Review
  • Open Access
47 Citations
13,965 Views
23 Pages

1 December 2022

The study of climatology serves as a foundation for students who wish to specialize in water resources, hydrology, or environmental engineering. Climatology is the study of long-term average weather patterns. It is a distinct field of study from mete...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical, Civil and Environmental Engineering)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
22 Citations
12,299 Views
12 Pages

El Niño’s Effects on Southern African Agriculture in 2023/24 and Anticipatory Action Strategies to Reduce the Impacts in Zimbabwe

  • Hillary Mugiyo,
  • Tamuka Magadzire,
  • Dennis Junior Choruma,
  • Vimbayi Grace Petrova Chimonyo and ,
  • Rebecca Manzou,
  • Obert Jiri and
  • Tafadzwa Mabhaudhi
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

16 November 2023

The frequency of El Niño occurrences in southern Africa surpasses the norm, resulting in erratic weather patterns that significantly impact food security, particularly in Zimbabwe. The effects of these weather patterns posit that El Niñ...

(This article belongs to the Section Meteorology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,115 Views
19 Pages

23 May 2023

This study was conducted to identify the fire weather conditions needed to assess future peatland fires under climate change. Recent peatland fires in Indonesia have resulted in globally significant environmental impacts. Nevertheless, diurnal fire w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing-Based Assessments in the Forest Fire Disturbance Continuum)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,794 Views
12 Pages

28 April 2023

Peatland fires in Central Kalimantan emit thick smoke and large amounts of greenhouse gases and have an impact on the environment globally, but studies on fire weather have not been carried out due to lack of diurnal weather data. The aim of this stu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamics of Wind-Fire Interaction: Fundamentals and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,417 Views
13 Pages

Mortality and Natural Regeneration of Mangroves in the Eastern Gulf of California: A Comparison Between Strong and Weak ENSO Events

  • Lidia Rodríguez-Arredondo,
  • Olivia Millán-Aguilar,
  • Miguel Ángel Hurtado-Oliva and
  • Marlenne Manzano-Sarabia

Mangrove wetlands in northwestern Mexico have been highlighted due to their ecological relevance and ecosystem services. This study evaluated the mortality and natural regeneration of mangroves located in six coastal lagoons in Sinaloa, considering f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,072 Views
26 Pages

3 June 2025

Tropical trees represent an important potential archive of climate and ecological information, but their dendrochronology based on conventional techniques has been challenging. We conducted a pilot study of the wood anatomy and dendroclimatological p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Perspectives on New World Tropical Forests)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,054 Views
15 Pages

11 September 2018

El Niño–Southern Oscillation strongly influences rainfall and temperature patterns in Eastern Australia, with major impacts on frost, heat, and drought stresses, and potential consequences for wheat production. Wheat phenology is a key factor to adap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Agriculture for Climate Change Adaptation)

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