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Switch between El Nino and La Nina is caused by subsurface ocean waves likely driven by lunar tidal forcing. <i>NPG Scientific Reports 9(1)</i>: 10 pp. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-49678-w\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-49678-w</a>","BEntID":310122,"PublicFlag":1,"CheckedFlag":0,"wosflag":1,"vabbflag":1,"RefStringPartII":". <i>NPG Scientific Reports 9(1)</i>: 10 pp. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-49678-w\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-49678-w</a>","DocTypID":8,"DocType":"Journal article","MarineFlag":0,"FreshFlag":0,"BrackishFlag":0,"TerrestrialFlag":0,"Authorstring":"Lin, J.; Qian, T.","OrigTitleTranslFlag":0,"Authorstringtrunc":"Lin, J.; Qian, T.","Englishabstract":"The El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the dominant interannual variability of Earth’s climate system, and strongly modulates global temperature, precipitation, atmospheric circulation, tropical cyclones and other extreme events. However, forecasting ENSO is one of the most difficult problems in climate sciences affecting both interannual climate prediction and decadal prediction of near-term global climate change. The key question is what cause the switch between El Nino and La Nina. For the past 30 years, ENSO forecasts have been limited to short lead times after ENSO sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly has already developed, but unable to predict the switch between El Nino and La Nina. Here, we demonstrate that the switch between El Nino and La Nina is caused by a subsurface ocean wave propagating from western Pacific to central and eastern Pacific and then triggering development of SST anomaly. This is based on analysis of all ENSO events in the past 136 years using multiple long-term observational datasets. The wave’s slow phase speed and decoupling from atmosphere indicate that it is a forced wave. 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