El Niño Modoki is a climate phenomenon characterized by anomalous central Pacific warming

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El Niño Modoki is recognized in the scientific literature as a distinct climate phenomenon characterized by anomalous warming centered in the Pacific rather than the eastern basin.

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The retrieved literature consistently defines El Niño Modoki as a climate phenomenon featuring warm sea surface temperature anomalies in the central Pacific. Papers such as [0] and [9] explicitly support this definition.

Evidence for · 2

El Niño Modoki Impacts on Australian Rainfall

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Andréa S. Taschetto, Matthew H. England. El Niño Modoki Impacts on Australian Rainfall. 2009. https://doi.org/10.1175/2008jcli2589.1

Paper [0] explicitly characterizes El Niño Modoki events by warm sea surface temperature anomalies in the central Pacific.

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Ensemble Model of Precipitation Change Over Indonesia Caused by El Nino Modoki

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Ida Bagus Mandhara Brasika. Ensemble Model of Precipitation Change Over Indonesia Caused by El Nino Modoki. 2021. https://doi.org/10.24843/jmrt.2021.v04.i01.p10

Paper [9] discusses El Niño Modoki as a unique phenomenon impacting precipitation through its distinct central Pacific configuration.

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first checked02 Aug 2026

judged → SUPPORTED · 9002 Aug 2026

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