El Niño, Super El Niño, and Climate Change
“This year we are already 1.1 °C warmer than the 20th century average. And we haven’t even experienced the peak of the event yet, and we’re not the year after an event. So I think it’s it’s incredibly likely that next year we’ll we’ll shatter the global temperature record”
A conversation with Daniel Vimont (University of Wisconsin–Madison) about the El Niño Southern Oscillation, different types of El Niños, La Niña, and how these phenomena are interacting with climate change. Released November 6, 2026.
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Daniel Vimont
Dr. Daniel Vimont is a Professor and Department Chair of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His group has a broad set of research interests focused on understanding mechanisms of climate variability and climate change, scale interactions in weather and climate, and global and regional impacts of climate change. In support of these research interests his group uses observational analyses, designed experiments using models of varying complexity, simple and advanced statistical techniques, and theoretical analyses. His work on climate impacts is deeply interdisciplinary and emphasizes conversational and co-evolutionary models of group interactions.
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