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El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)

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 is now underway, led by the ENSO Metrics Working Group of the International CLIVAR Pacific Panel.

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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.