the ningaloo niño
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MING FENG
The Ningaloo Niño
El Niño translated from Spanish, Christ child – initially used by Peruvian fisherman to describe the appearance, around Christmas, of a warm ocean current off the South American coast.
Coastal Niño – unusual warming off the ocean eastern boundaries
March 1995 February 2011 January 1998
Benguela Niño Ningaloo Niño El Niño
NOAA Climate Prediction Center SST anomaly field
Ningaloo
Derived from the aboriginal Gnulli language, Ningaloo means promontory , shaped like a beckoning finger of nearly 200 km long and jutting into the Indian Ocean
The Ningaloo Niño research
Feng et al. 2013 Scientific Reports
The evolution of Ningaloo Niño events, their decadal variations, and their association with interannual and decadal climate variability in the Indo-Pacific Ocean Predictability of the extreme Ningaloo Niño events in relation to key climate variation modes in the Indo-Pacific Ocean, using ACCESS model Future risks of extreme Ningaloo Niño events in a warming world so as to better inform decision making
Existing projectsFRDC: Nick Caputi, Alan Pearce (WA DoF),
Ming Feng (CSIRO)ARC: Nathan Bindoff, Helen Phillips (UTas)
Jay McCreary (U. Hawaii), CSIRO
ProposalsACCSP: Ming Feng (CSIRO); Harry Hendon (BoM)ARC: Jens Zinke (UWA), Janice Lough (AIMS)Ming Feng (CSIRO), Shang-Ping Xie (Scripps)
Michael McPhaden (NOAA)Tony Lee (JPL, NASA)
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