El Niño Update November 2023
An El Niño event has been underway since spring 2023. Conditions have been gaining strength, and as of mid-November, these are still observed in the tropical Pacific Ocean. The evolution of El Niño remains uncertain, but it is likely that it will shortly peak and end in the coming Northern Hemisphere spring. This bulletin details […]
Towards urgent global climate change action: Release of IPCC’s latest report “AR6 Climate Change 2021: the Physical Science Basis”
On 9 August 2021, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the Working Group 1 contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) – “Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis”. One of the eight reports making up the IPCC AR6, the Working Group 1 (WG1) report addresses the most updated physical understanding of the climate […]
An intense El Niño event for the end of the year 2015!
El Niño is a climate variation which results from the coupling of intense atmospheric and oceanic phenomena, mainly in tropical regions. During winter when it appears, El Nino has weather impacts around the globe. In the ocean El Niño is characterized by a strong warming of surface and subsurface waters from the central Pacific to […]
“El Niño”
Apparu l’année dernière, “El Niño” se renforce et pourrait atteindre une intensité forte dans les mois à venir. Les anomalies climatiques commencent déjà à se faire sentir Pour beaucoup, ce n’est qu’un écho lointain, un vague phénomène climatique dont on a faiblement entendu parler en 2004, 2006, 2009 et même 2014. Mais “El Niño”, cette anomalie chaude […]