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ArticleNature communications2025

Global climate mode resonance due to rapidly intensifying El Niño-Southern Oscillation.

Malte F Stuecker, Sen Zhao, Axel Timmermann, Rohit Ghosh, Tido Semmler, Sun-Seon Lee, Ja-Yeon Moon, Fei-Fei Jin, Thomas Jung

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Projected changes in tropical instability wave activity in the Pacific Ocean under greenhouse warming.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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9 authors.

Malte F Stuecker *Department of Oceanography, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, USA. stuecker@hawaii.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8355-0662
Sen Zhao *Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5597-1109
Axel TimmermannCenter for Climate Physics, Institute for Basic Science, Busan, Republic of Korea. axel@ibsclimate.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0657-2969
Rohit GhoshAlfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9888-7292
Tido SemmlerMet Éireann, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2254-4901
Sun-Seon LeeCenter for Climate Physics, Institute for Basic Science, Busan, Republic of Korea.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7403-6485
Ja-Yeon MoonCenter for Climate Physics, Institute for Basic Science, Busan, Republic of Korea.
Fei-Fei JinInternational Pacific Research Center, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5101-2296
Thomas JungAlfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2651-1293

Funding

National Science Foundation (NSF) AGS-2219257United States Department of Commerce | NOAA | Climate Program Office (NOAA Climate Program Office) NA23OAR2007440U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) DE-SC0025595
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) influences climate variability globally, encompassing various other modes of variability, and thus represents a key predictable climate signal on seasonal timescales. Yet, its response to greenhouse warming remains uncertain, with models projecting a range of outcomes. Here, we demonstrate that in response to warming, a state-of-the-art high-resolution climate model simulates a rapid transition from a moderate-amplitude irregular regime, as observed in the current climate, to a highly regular oscillation with intensifying amplitude. This behaviour can be attributed to increasing air-sea feedbacks, which approach criticality in the second half of this century, and growing atmospheric noise. As ENSO intensifies in this model, it synchronizes with other prominent climate modes, such as the North Atlantic Oscillation and the Indian Ocean Dipole, thereby imprinting its regular, predictable variability on them. If realized, this global climate mode resonance would have wide-ranging whiplash impacts on regional hydroclimates.

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