El Niño in the Pliocene

Abstract

Whether interannual variability in the Pacific Ocean was a feature of the warm Pliocene climate is debated. Variance in reconstructed eastern tropical Pacific surface temperatures provides strong support for persistent El Niño activity at this time.

Keywords

General Earth and Planetary Sciences

Citation

von der Heydt, A S & Dijkstra, H A 2011, 'El Niño in the Pliocene', Nature Geoscience, vol. 4, no. 8, pp. 502-503. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1224