On average, El Niño events have weakened and the centre of maximum sea surface temperature anomalies has shifted to the west over the past two decades. New research suggests that the strengthening of cross-equatorial winds in the eastern Pacific can cause these changes.
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Yeh, SW. Winds shift El Niño flavour. Nature Clim Change 8, 766–767 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0261-3
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