These studies may reveal the sensitivities of ENSO-style climate variability to changes in boundary conditions, and in this way contribute to further developing a predictive capability.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
We thanks the staff at the Christensen Research Institute, Madang, for logistic support; Jim Smith, Time Fletcher and Meriwether Wilson for helo in the field; and Phil Jones and Richard Holme for help with data access. The GISST2.3 dataset was produced and provided by the UK Meteorological Office. We thank Phil Howell for supply of the ARAND software. This work was funded by NERC grants GR3-08475 and GR3-09961.
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