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SUBMITTER: Barnard PL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5316878 | biostudies-other | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nature communications 20170214
The El Niño-Southern Oscillation is the dominant mode of interannual climate variability across the Pacific Ocean basin, with influence on the global climate. The two end members of the cycle, El Niño and La Niña, force anomalous oceanographic conditions and coastal response along the Pacific margin, exposing many heavily populated regions to increased coastal flooding and erosion hazards. However, a quantitative record of coastal impacts is spatially limited and temporally restricted to only th ...[more]