Repository logo

Research Data

Permanent URI for this collection

https://hdl.handle.net/10217/170617

Browse

Browsing Research Data by Author "Baehr, Johanna"

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
  • No Thumbnail Available
    ItemOpen Access
    Dataset associated with "El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) predictability in equilibrated warmer climates"
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Zheng, Yiyu; Rugenstein, Maria; Pieper, Patrick; Beobide-Arsuaga, Goratz; Baehr, Johanna
    Responses of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) to global warming remain uncertain, which challenges ENSO forecasts in a warming climate. We investigate changes in ENSO characteristics and predictability in idealized simulations with quadrupled CO2 forcing from seven general circulation models. Comparing the warmer climate to control simulations, ENSO variability weakens, with the neutral state lasts longer, while active ENSO states last shorter and skew to favor the La Niña state. Six-month persistence-assessed ENSO predictability slightly reduces in five models and increases in two models under the warming condition. While the overall changes in ENSO predictability are insignificant, we find significant relationships between changes in predictability and intensity, duration and skewness of the three individual ENSO states. The maximal contribution to changes in the predictability of El Niño, La Niña and neutral states stems from changes in skewness and events' duration. Our findings show that a robust and significant decrease in ENSO characteristics does not imply a similar change in ENSO predictability in a warmer climate. This could be due to model deficiencies in ENSO dynamics and limitations in persistence model when predicting ENSO.