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SUBMITTER: Li Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4992885 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Li Ziguang Z Cai Wenju W Lin Xiaopei X
Scientific reports 20160822
A positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) and a warm phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) reduce rainfall over the Indian subcontinent and southern Australia. However, since the 1980s, El Niño's influence has been decreasing, accompanied by a strengthening in the IOD's influence on southern Australia but a reversal in the IOD's influence on the Indian subcontinent. The dynamics are not fully understood. Here we show that a post-1980 weakening in the ENSO-IOD coherence plays a key role. Du ...[more]