MING FENG

The Ningaloo Niño

El Niño translated from Spanish, Christ child – initially used by Peruvian fisherman to describe the appearance, around Christmas, of a warm ocean current off the South American coast.

Coastal Niño – unusual warming off the ocean eastern boundaries

March 1995 February 2011 January 1998

Benguela Niño Ningaloo Niño El Niño

NOAA Climate Prediction Center SST anomaly field

Ningaloo

Derived from the aboriginal Gnulli language, Ningaloo means promontory , shaped like a beckoning finger of nearly 200 km long and jutting into the Indian Ocean

The Ningaloo Niño research

Feng et al. 2013 Scientific Reports

The evolution of Ningaloo Niño events, their decadal variations, and their association with interannual and decadal climate variability in the Indo-Pacific Ocean Predictability of the extreme Ningaloo Niño events in relation to key climate variation modes in the Indo-Pacific Ocean, using ACCESS model Future risks of extreme Ningaloo Niño events in a warming world so as to better inform decision making

Existing projectsFRDC: Nick Caputi, Alan Pearce (WA DoF),

Ming Feng (CSIRO)ARC: Nathan Bindoff, Helen Phillips (UTas)

Jay McCreary (U. Hawaii), CSIRO

ProposalsACCSP: Ming Feng (CSIRO); Harry Hendon (BoM)ARC: Jens Zinke (UWA), Janice Lough (AIMS)Ming Feng (CSIRO), Shang-Ping Xie (Scripps)

Michael McPhaden (NOAA)Tony Lee (JPL, NASA)