There and back again: the impacts of back-to-back El Niño and La Niña
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Australia's climate drivers have brought extremely wet and extremely dry conditions in recent years.
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Over the last 5 years these conditions have been linked to both bushfires and floods.
El Niño and positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) events, in 2018 -2019 and 2019-2020, followed by two consecutive La Niñas. These El Ninos and positive IODs enhanced the extremely hot and dry conditions that exacerbated the Black Summer bushfires. This was followed by devastating floods over eastern Australia in the last 2 years, linked to La Niñas. In this webinar, Dr Guojian Wang and Dr Agus Santoso will break down how ENSO has occurred in the past and what the current projections say about its future impacts.
Dr Guojian Wang is a Research Scientist at the CSIRO, Australia. His interest spans from the mechanisms of extreme ENSO and IOD, to their impacts on the regional and global climate, and responses to greenhouse warming.
Dr Agus Santoso is a Senior Research Scientist at UNSW Climate Change Research Centre, an Adjunct Science Leader at CSIRO, and an associate investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes. He is an editor at the Journal of Climate and a former member of the WCRP CLIVAR Pacific Panel. His research interests include tropical climate variability and global ocean circulation.
