El Niño Modoki is a variant of El Niño that involves unusual warming in the central tropical Pacific alongside cooling in the eastern and western tropical Pacific.
Sources
- What You Need to Know about El Niño (blog.education.nationalgeographic.com)
- https://www.jamstec.go.jp/aplinfo/sintexf/e/elnmodoki/about_elnm.html (jamstec.go.jp)
- https://www.nature.com/articles/srep42371 (nature.com)
- https://www.nature.com/articles/srep16653 (nature.com)
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