Tag Archive: El Niño Southern Oscillation

Recent El Niño behaviour is unprecedented in the last 400 years

June 5, 2019 3:47 pm Published by Climate Extremes Leave your thoughts

In a world first, CLEX researchers have produced a 400-year-long record of El Nino activity. This gives us an entirely new insight into the behaviour of these high impact events and reveals unprecedented changes over the past 30 years.

The extreme rainfall in northern Queensland during January and February 2019

June 5, 2019 3:25 pm Published by Climate Extremes Leave your thoughts

Large areas of northern Queensland experienced extreme rainfall and severe flooding in late January and February 2019. This briefing note examines the impacts and some of the likely causes of the event.