Day-night ocean warming helps explain why El Niño outpaces La Niña in models

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Jul 7, 2026, 3:20 pm186 ptsTrendingTop
Researchers have long known that there is an asymmetry in the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the confluence of wind and water currents that creates warm El Niño events and cooler La Niña events. Large-scale climate models tend to underrepresent this asymmetry for reasons that are still not fully…

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