El Niño-Southern Oscillation: Past, Present, and Future
Celebrating the Scientific Legacy of Klaus Wyrtki
A symposium hosted at the East-West Center in Honolulu
March 12 - 14, 2025
The year 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of two milestone events of early El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) research that involved Klaus Wyrtki of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, a pioneering oceanographer who made groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of ENSO: The publication of his seminal Journal of Physical Oceanography 1975 paper: “El Niño—The dynamic response of the equatorial Pacific Ocean to atmospheric forcing”, and the launch of the El Niño Watch Expedition to verify the first ever El Niño forecast based on a statistical model using the Southern Oscillation Index.
A 3-day symposium will be held at the East West Center in Honolulu (Hawaii, USA) to celebrate the legacy of Klaus Wyrtki and discuss the state-of-the-art of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) research and other aspects of Wyrtki's research program.
We welcome abstract submissions on all aspects of ENSO research, with special focus on ENSO dynamics, modeling, prediction, and impacts, as well as other research that was inspired by Wyrtki's scientific contributions.
This is an in-person only event. The registration fee will likely be ~350 USD.
Abstract submission is now open until the deadline on October 15th 2024 (11:59 pm HI time):
We strongly recommend submitting abstracts as soon as possible as the number of attendees will be limited to ~130. We only accept one abstract submission per attendee.
An ENSO winter school will be held after the symposium. Students that are interested in applying can find the relevant information here:
Scientific Organizing Committee: Malte F. Stuecker (UH Mānoa, USA, chair), Wenju Cai (Ocean University of China, China), Antonietta Capotondi (NOAA PSL), Sophie Cravatte (IRD, France), Fei-Fei Jin (UH Mānoa, USA), Jong-Seong Kug (Seoul National University, South Korea), Michael J. McPhaden (NOAA PMEL, USA), Samantha Stevenson (UC Santa Barbara, USA), Ken Takahashi (IGP, Peru), Andrea Taschetto (University of New South Wales, Australia), Andrew Wittenberg (NOAA GFDL), Wenjun Zhang (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China), Christina Karamperidou (ex-officio; UH Mānoa, USA)
Local Organizing Committee: Kellie Terada & Aimee Nakajima
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda (ECMWF, European Union)
Wenju Cai (Ocean University of China, China)
Suzana Camargo (Columbia University, USA)
Mark Cane (Columbia University, USA)
Yassir Eddebbar (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA)
Fei-Fei Jin (UH Mānoa, USA)
Roger Lukas (UH Mānoa, USA)
Mark Merrifield (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA)
Janet Sprintall (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA)
Andrea Taschetto (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Axel Timmermann (IBS Center for Climate Physics, South Korea)
Deadlines:
15th October 2024: Abstract submission closes
November 2024: Abstract decisions will be made
15th December 2024: Registration deadline
External Sponsors:
CLIVAR
Local Sponsors:
SOEST
IPRC
