Australia likely to experience up to 35% more El Niños under new projections – Phys.org

The “butterfly effect” is used by climate scientists to refer to an infinitesimally random perturbation to an identical initial condition (for example, in surface temperatures) causing drastically different El Niño trajectories.
El Niño is associated with low rainfall in western Pacific regions including in eastern and southern Australia, and increased likelihood of drought, heatwaves and bushfires. It also causes flooding in the Equatorial Pacific.
New research, published in Nature, discovere…

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