Articles | Volume 16, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-2007-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-2007-2016
Research article
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23 Feb 2016
Research article |  | 23 Feb 2016

On the progress of the 2015–2016 El Niño event

Costas A. Varotsos, Chris G. Tzanis, and Nicholas V. Sarlis

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It has been recently reported that the current 2015–2016 El Niño could become "one of the strongest on record". To further explore this claim, we performed a new analysis that allows the detection of precursory signals of the strong El Niño events by using a recently developed non-linear dynamics tool. The analysis of the SOI time series shows that the 2015–2016 El Niño would be rather a "moderate to strong" or even a "strong” event and not "one of the strongest on record", as that of 1997–1998.
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