This year's 'El Niño will turn out to be very big'

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he anticipation is growing that this year’s newly formed El Niño will turn out to be very big.

All climate models surveyed by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology are currently predicting a strong event later this year.

We’ve been here before – last year, in fact, when fears of a 2014 “super El Niño” proved anticlimactic. But it’s not over yet. The El Niño – Spanish for “the little boy”, which refers to a particular pattern of ocean and atmospheric temperatures across the Pacific – has resumed its growth this year and this time it is not showing any signs of slowing down.

Read the story on The Conversation by principal research scientist, Wealth from Oceans Flagship at CSIRO, Wenju Cai, a Friend of The Conversation and a

Senior Research associate at UNSW Australia, Agus Santoso, and a Postdoctoral fellow at CSIRO, Guojian Wang -“2015-16 is shaping up todeliver a rollercoaster from strong El Niño to La Niña.”