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The Ningaloo Niño. Ming Feng. 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. Coastal Niño – unusual warming off the ocean eastern boundaries.
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The Ningaloo Niño Ming Feng
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 Coastal Niño – unusual warming off the ocean eastern boundaries • 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. March 1995 February 2011 January 1998 Benguela Niño Ningaloo Niño ElNiño NOAA Climate Prediction Center SST anomaly field
The Ningaloo Niño research • 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 projects FRDC: Nick Caputi, Alan Pearce (WA DoF), Ming Feng (CSIRO) ARC: Nathan Bindoff, Helen Phillips (UTas) Jay McCreary (U. Hawaii), CSIRO Proposals ACCSP: 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) Feng et al. 2013 Scientific Reports