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Nature 398, 559-562 (15 April 1999) | doi:10.1038/19193

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El Niño:  The child prodigy of 1997-98

Michael J. McPhaden

Just under a year ago, a sharp drop in equatorial Pacific sea-surface temperatures heralded the end of the 1997-98 El Niño. Called by some "the climate event of the century", it was by several measures the strongest on record.

  1. Michael J. McPhaden is in the NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, Washington 98115, USA.
    e-mail: Email: mcphaden@pmel.noaa.gov