Climate change and El Niño

Citation

(2001), "Climate change and El Niño", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 10 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm.2001.07310eag.007

Climate change and El Niño

Climate change and El Niño

International Research Institute (IRI) for Climate Predictioniri.ldeo.columbia.edu/iripred.ldeo.columbia.edu/ iripred.ldeo.columbia.edu/research/ENSO/enso.html

The International Research Institute (IRI) for Climate Prediction was established through a cooperative agreement between the NOAA Office of Global Programs and Columbia University. The IRI Web site posts the institute's news, upcoming events, and recently released products and publications. It also includes three principal sections:

1. 1.

   Climate Information System (with pages entitled "Digest", "Forecasts", "Monitoring", "Regional impacts", "Data library", and "Research").

2. 2.

   Applications ("Sectors", "Regions", and "Cross-cutting Issues").

3. 3.

   Outreach ("Training program", "Climate dictionary", "IRI publications", and "Meeting archives").

The Climate Information System "Forecasts" page, at the second URL above, provides a seasonal climate forecast distilled from a variety of climate prediction tools, and, at the third URL, a series of global maps that illustrate the probabilities of seasonal temperature and precipitation anomalies associated with El Niño and La Niño. The user who wants to know the potential effects of EL Niño (or La Niño) can go to this page, enter a season, a location, and other information and receive a map that illustrates the probabilities of seasonal temperature and precipitation outcomes associated with the specified weather pattern. An in-depth explanation of the maps is included.