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December 19, 2019

El Niño, La Niña Rising

These seasonal climate patterns are responsible for far-reaching and damaging weather events that affect the entire world. The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics is leading the way to understand how global climate change could be affecting them. By Constantino Panagopulos Allison Lawman is in The University of Texas at Austin paleoclimate archive, laying out… Continue Reading El Niño, La Niña Rising

Filed Under: Climate Stories, Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, News Tagged With: climate change, El Nino, ENSO, feature, la nina, Newsletter stories

September 4, 2019

New study gives hope for predicting long lasting El Niño and La Niña

Drought ruined crops in Texas

A scientific paper by a graduate student at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) has explained why some El Niño and La Niña events last longer than others, a result that could help predict their worst effects. The paper, which was published in August in the Journal of Climate, shows that El Niño… Continue Reading New study gives hope for predicting long lasting El Niño and La Niña

Filed Under: homepage-news, Media Releases, News Tagged With: climate change, El Nino, ENSO, graduate students, la nina, press release, Xian Wu

February 13, 2018

Student Profile: Tianyi Sun

UTIG Ph.D. student Tianyi Sun was recently selected for one of three Outstanding Oral awards for the 2018 American Meteorological Society meeting in Austin. She presented on “Role of Stochastic Atmospheric Forcing in Tropical Pacific Decadal Variability and ENSO Modulation.” The presentation can be viewed on the AMS website. We caught up with Tianyi to learn more… Continue Reading Student Profile: Tianyi Sun

Filed Under: Climate Stories, climate-slideshow, Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, homepage-slider, Meet the UTIG Student, News Tagged With: Climate, El Nino, ENSO, PhD students, research, student profile

November 16, 2017

New Research Could Predict La Niña Drought Years in Advance

Two new studies from The University of Texas at Austin have significantly improved scientists’ ability to predict the strength and duration of droughts caused by La Niña – a recurrent cooling pattern in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Their findings, which predict that the current La Niña is likely to stretch into a second year, could… Continue Reading New Research Could Predict La Niña Drought Years in Advance

Filed Under: Climate Stories, climate-slideshow, homepage-news, homepage-slider, Media Releases, News Tagged With: Climate, drought, El Nino, ENSO, la nina

December 9, 2015

Institute for Geophysics at AGU

The American Geophysical Union’s annual fall meeting is December 14-18 in San Francisco and the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics is there. Continue Reading Institute for Geophysics at AGU

Filed Under: News Tagged With: AGU, El Nino, glaciers, Mars, radar

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