The year 2021 was a rather cranky one for our team! For one, quite some research was cranked out - i.e. published - by team members and for another, a particular Cranky Uncle started to make the rounds throughout the year. As in previous recaps, this one is divided into several sections:
The El Niño-Southern Oscillation, which has a huge influence on global weather patterns, isn't behaving as computer models predicted. That's puzzling scientists.
ENSO Blog: How the Pattern of Trends Across the Tropical Pacific Ocean Is Critical for Understanding the Future Climate and Changes in El Niño and La Niña
The causes of climate change are typically attributed to greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide or methane that form homogeneous mixtures spread evenly across the globe, which lead to relatively uniform and well-understood effects, namely, the warming of the planet. But scientists are increasingly realising that greenhouse gases only tell part of the story. Another major […]