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SUMMARY:Geophysics Seminar - Shang-Ping Xie\, "What powered the growth of 
 2026 super El Niño?"
LOCATION:Mitchell Earth Sciences 350/372\, 397 Panama Mall\, Stanford\, CA
  94305
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Shang-Ping Xie\nDistinguished Professor of Climate Sc
 ience\, Scripps Institution of Oceanography\, UC San Diego\n\nMore inform
 ation forthcoming\n\nAbstract:\n\nAs early as March\, the ECMWF and other
  climate forecast centers predicted a strong El Niño event for 2026—a for
 ecast that has largely materialized\, with Eastern Pacific sea surface te
 mperature anomalies breaking century-long records. This super El Niño sha
 res a distinctive two-part evolution common to the extreme El Niño events
  of 1982\, 1997\, and 2015. Specifically\, the classic basin-scale El Niñ
 o driven by a deepened thermocline is preceded by a springtime (February–
 May) "booster" linked to the slow eastward expansion of the western Pacif
 ic warm pool coupled with westerly wind anomalies. The seminar presents r
 eal-time observations in relation to key El Niño precursors in the litera
 ture.\n\nSpeaker-suggested reading: Liang\, Y.\, S.-P. Xie\, A. Fedorov\,
  Q. Peng\, and A. Miyamoto\, 2026: An eastward-propagating coupled mode a
 mplifying the early growth of extreme El Niño events. Sci. Adv.\, 12\, ea
 ee0444. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aee0444\n\nhttp://next
 -to-u.app/events/66e88b93-132b-41cd-821e-55ce52b43a1b
URL:http://next-to-u.app/events/66e88b93-132b-41cd-821e-55ce52b43a1b
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