ENSO Metrics

Overview

The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the dominant mode of interannual variability in the tropical Pacific and has far-reaching impacts on climate around the world. It is therefore key to ensure the correct simulation of ENSO in state-of-the-art climate models. A community-wide synthesis of metrics to evaluate the performance, teleconnections and processes of ENSO in coupled GCMs have been implemented to PMP as a result of the collaboration with the ENSO Metrics Working Group of the International CLIVAR Pacific Panel.

Demo

• PMP demo Jupyter notebook

Results

• Interactive graphics for PMP-calculated ENSO Metrics

• Description for included metrics

• Description for the results

Reference

• Planton, Y., E. Guilyardi, A. T. Wittenberg, J. Lee, P. J. Gleckler, T. Bayr, S. McGregor, M. J. McPhaden, S. Power, R. Roehrig, J. Vialard, A Voldoire, 2021: Evaluating climate models with the CLIVAR 2020 ENSO metrics package, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0337.1.

Additional Resources

• CLIVAR ENSO Metrics GitHub repository