An intensifying positive phase of the Indian Ocean in recent months has lead to the latest wet monsoon on record for India, worsened drought across Australia and recently been associated with unexpected warming of the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean surface and subsurface (and El Nino-look).
An intensifying positive phase of the Indian Ocean in recent months has lead to the latest wet monsoon on record for India, worsened drought across Australia and recently been associated with unexpected warming of the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean surface and subsurface (and El Nino-look).
Several weeks of warming in the surface and subsurface eastern equatorial Pacific signals an ENSO trend toward weak El Nino. But is this warming a head fake?
A classic dry climate pattern associated with the positive phase of the Indian Ocean Dipole is strengthening across Australia. Historic drought for Australia as summertime arrives!