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Articles | Volume 21, issue 6
Articles | Volume 21, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-3003-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-3003-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 21, issue 6
Research article
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19 Nov 2025
Research article |  | 19 Nov 2025

ENSO and the Temperature of the North Equatorial Counter Current

David John Webb

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A modern climate model is used to test a new hypothesis that changes observed during El Niños are, in part, forced by changes in the temperature of the North Equatorial Counter Current. This is a warm current that flows eastwards across the Pacific, a few degrees north of the Equator, close to the Inter-Tropical Convection Zone, a major region of deep atmospheric convection. The test runs show significant El Niño type responses, giving confidence that the hypothesis is correct.
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