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The most significant interannual variability phenomenon of our planet, namely the El Niño and the Southern Oscillation (ENSO), is discussed in this chapter starting with a definition to identify these events. The effort put to observe this phenomenon in the Equatorial Pacific along with the observed features of ENSO is discussed. The theories for the evolution of ENSO are also presented in this chapter.

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Misra, V. (2023). El Niño and the Southern Oscillation. In: An Introduction to Large-Scale Tropical Meteorology. Springer Atmospheric Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12887-5_7

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