SW Climate Podcast - Mini-Video Podcast on El Niño and ENSO Models

Next up in our new series featuring video mini-segments from the podcast. This segment comes from the September 2014 SW Climate Podcast - and covers ENSO models and El Niño forecasts.

Mike Crimmins and Zack Guido talk about El Niño forecast models and the way that different metrics are used to predict/forecast an El Niño event.

Taken from the CLIMAS Southwest Climate Podcast

• Mike Crimmins - CLIMAS: Climate Assessment for the Southwest & University of Arizona Cooperative Extension
• Zack Guido - University of AZ International Research and Application Program (IRAP)
• Ben McMahan - CLIMAS: Climate Assessment for the Southwest
• Emily Huddleston - CLIMAS: Climate Assessment for the Southwest

Image Credits (in order of appearance):

• Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies - April to December during building El Niño - ​Source: NOAA/Climate.gov
• Global Sea Surface Anomalies - La Niña (1988) vs El Niño (1997) - Source: NOAA/Climate.gov
• Ocean SST anomalies during ENSO cycle - Source: http://bobtisdale.wordpress.com
• Mid-Sept IRI/CPC Plume-Based Probabilistic ENSO Forecast - Source: IRI/CPC
• April/May/June SST in Pacific Ocean - Source: NOAA/Climate.gov
• Mid-Sept 2014 Plume of Model ENSO Predictions - Source: IRI/CPC
• Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) over time - Source: NOAA/CPC
• El Niño vs. La Niña Winter Patterns - Source: NOAA

If you have a question you'd like answered, you can email Zack Guido (zguido@email.arizona.edu) or Ben McMahan (bmcmahan@email.arizona.edu) with "CLIMAS Podcast Question" in the subject line. You can also tweet us @CLIMAS_UA or post a question on facebook