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Wenju Cai
Researcher at Ocean University of China
Publications - 290
Citations - 21240
Wenju Cai is an academic researcher from Ocean University of China. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sea surface temperature & Climate change. The author has an hindex of 65, co-authored 259 publications receiving 16702 citations. Previous affiliations of Wenju Cai include Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation & Flinders University.
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Increasing frequency of extreme El Niño events due to greenhouse warming
Wenju Cai,Wenju Cai,Simon Borlace,Matthieu Lengaigne,Peter van Rensch,Matthew Collins,Gabriel A. Vecchi,Axel Timmermann,Agus Santoso,Michael J. McPhaden,Lixin Wu,Matthew H. England,Guojian Wang,Guojian Wang,Eric Guilyardi,Eric Guilyardi,Fei-Fei Jin +16 more
TL;DR: This article showed that a doubling in the occurrence of such extreme episodes is caused by increased surface warming of the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, which results in the atmospheric conditions required for these event to occur.
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Recent intensification of wind-driven circulation in the Pacific and the ongoing warming hiatus
Matthew H. England,Shayne McGregor,Paul Spence,Gerald A. Meehl,Axel Timmermann,Wenju Cai,Alex Sen Gupta,Michael J. McPhaden,Ariaan Purich,Agus Santoso +9 more
TL;DR: This paper showed that strengthening trade winds caused a reduction in the 2012 global average surface air temperature of 0.1 −0.2°C, which is a result of increased subsurface ocean heat uptake.
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The impact of global warming on the tropical Pacific Ocean and El Nino
Mat Collins,Mat Collins,Soon Il An,Wenju Cai,Alexandre Ganachaud,Eric Guilyardi,Fei-Fei Jin,Markus Jochum,Matthieu Lengaigne,Scott B. Power,Axel Timmermann,Gabriel A. Vecchi,Andrew T. Wittenberg +12 more
TL;DR: The El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a naturally occurring fluctuation that originates in the tropical Pacific region and affects ecosystems, agriculture, freshwater supplies, hurricanes and other severe weather events worldwide.
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ENSO and greenhouse warming
Wenju Cai,Wenju Cai,Agus Santoso,Guojian Wang,Sang-Wook Yeh,Soon Il An,Kim M. Cobb,Mat Collins,Eric Guilyardi,Eric Guilyardi,Fei-Fei Jin,Jong-Seong Kug,Matthieu Lengaigne,Michael J. McPhaden,Ken Takahashi,Axel Timmermann,Gabriel A. Vecchi,Masahiro Watanabe,Lixin Wu +18 more
TL;DR: A review of the state of knowledge on the El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a natural climate phenomenon, can be found in this article, where the authors discuss recent advances and insights into how climate change will affect this natural climate varibility cycle.
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El Niño–Southern Oscillation complexity
Axel Timmermann,Axel Timmermann,Soon Il An,Jong-Seong Kug,Fei-Fei Jin,Wenju Cai,Wenju Cai,Wenju Cai,Antonietta Capotondi,Antonietta Capotondi,Kim M. Cobb,Matthieu Lengaigne,Michael J. McPhaden,Malte F. Stuecker,Malte F. Stuecker,Karl Stein,Andrew T. Wittenberg,Kyung-Sook Yun,Tobias Bayr,Han Ching Chen,Yoshimitsu Chikamoto,Boris Dewitte,Dietmar Dommenget,Pamela R. Grothe,Eric Guilyardi,Eric Guilyardi,Yoo-Geun Ham,Michiya Hayashi,Sarah Ineson,Daehyun Kang,Sunyong Kim,WonMoo Kim,June-Yi Lee,Tim Li,Jing-Jia Luo,Shayne McGregor,Yann Planton,Scott B. Power,Harun Rashid,Hong Li Ren,Agus Santoso,Ken Takahashi,Alexander Todd,Guomin Wang,Guojian Wang,Ruihuang Xie,Woo Hyun Yang,Sang-Wook Yeh,Jin-Ho Yoon,Elke Zeller,Xuebin Zhang +50 more
TL;DR: A synopsis of the current understanding of the spatio-temporal complexity of this important climate mode and its influence on the Earth system is provided and a unifying framework that identifies the key factors for this complexity is proposed.