El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Archives ~ MAVEN'S NOTEBOOK

September 8, 2025

By Andrew Hoell, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a recurring phenomenon defined by shifts in tropical...

The growing impact of ENSO on extreme drought and flood events

NOAA Research

Hydrology

April 28, 2025

By NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory Extreme hydroclimate events, such as droughts, floods, and heavy rainfall, account for a...

EOS: Record-breaking temperatures likely as El Niño persists

American Geophysical Union

Hydrology

March 1, 2024

Global surface air temperatures will likely remain high through early summer because of a continuing El Niño event. By Grace...

JOURNALIST’S RESOURCE: How El Niño and La Niña climate patterns form

Journalist's Resource

Hydrology

December 6, 2023

Learn how El Niño and La Niña climate patterns take shape and what the current El Niño could mean for...

JOURNALIST’S RESOURCE: El Niño: What it is, how it devastates economies, and where it intersects with climate change

Journalist's Resource

Hydrology

November 29, 2023

by Clark Merrefield, The Journalist’s Resource There is a band of water across the equatorial Pacific Ocean, stretching from the...

VOICE OF SAN DIEGO: It’s Hard to Predict What the Coming El Niño Will Bring

Voice of San Diego

Current Conditions

September 29, 2023

This periodically recurring atmospheric phenomenon in recent years has become just too unreliable to count on. By Robert Krier, Voice...

EOS: Better Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Forecasts for Water Management

American Geophysical Union

Hydrology

June 23, 2021

Emerging methods that improve precipitation forecasting over weeks to months could support more informed resource management and increase lead times...

Climate variability and change: Trends and impacts on California agriculture

Maven

Agriculture Best of the Notebook Notebook News and Features

June 23, 2016

Dr. Tapan Pathak looks at how climate variability, increasing temperatures, and changing precipitation could affect California agriculture In this presentation,...

California’s water future: Converging threats, strategic responses

Maven

Best of the Notebook Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

June 21, 2016

David Wegner says the assumptions of the second wave of water development are no longer valid; we must work together...