El Niño events are a prominent feature of climate variability with global climatic impacts. The 1997/98 episode, often referred to as ‘the climate event of the twentieth century and the 1982/83 extreme El Niño, featured a pronounced eastward extension of the west Pacific warm pool and development of atmospheric convection, and hence a huge rainfall increase, in the usually cold and dry equatorial eastern Pacific.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/increasing-frequency-extreme-el-ni%C3%B1o-events-due-greenhouse-warming
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[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-science
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