Australian bushfires likely contributed to multiyear La Niña

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The catastrophic Australian bushfires in 2019–2020 contributed to ocean cooling thousands of miles away, ultimately nudging the Tropical Pacific into a rare multi-year La Niña event that dissipated only recently.

The research was led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and is published in Science Advances.

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News Source: phys.org


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