El Nino  can impact the natural world. El Nino  can have devastating impact on everything from  weather systems to ecosystems around the world.

In the future, a similar method could be used to improve forecasts of Asia’s monsoon, he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

He is currently a Fellow of Echoing Green Foundation of New York City. El Niño years tend to see warmer-than-average temperatures across most of southern Australia, particularly during the second half of the year. A practicing environmentalist, he holds postgraduate degrees in environment resource management and development studies as a European Union (EU) Fellow at University College, Dublin, Ireland.

All this is destabilizing emerging economies. In marine ecosystems, El Nino is causing sea temperatures in the Pacific Ocean to rise, contributing to corals bleaching. With our method, we have roughly doubled the previous warning time," said co-developer Armin Bunde, a physicist at Germany's Justus Liebig University Giessen. El Nino often brings torrential rains in the north of the mountainous Latin American nation, with a high risk of mudslides, he said. California  may have a drought, and Manila may be flooded. The Bureau of Meteorology has confirmed Australia will experience a La Nina weather event this spring and summer. According to the WMO, 2016 became the warmest year on record because of the powerful El Nino in 2015-2016, combined with long-term climate change. The discovery of the new method was first published in 2013 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal — and the scientists have since been checking its accuracy.

El Niño could hit at the end of 2020, ... South America, Australia and Indonesia, ... the ‘El Nino’ events could then be predicted and compared with actual events,” the university said.

The majority of the climatic indicators remain in the neutral range and are likely to stay there for some months. Meanwhile,  the production of phytoplankton is decreasing, causing repercussions through the food chain so that even top predators like sea lions are going hungry due to  sea temperature rise. Typically, El Niño years occur  after every seven to ten years, affecting more than 60 million people, causing droughts, wildfires and causing devastating coral bleaching. In the future, a similar method could be used to improve forecasts of Asia's monsoon, he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. BARCELONA, Nov 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The complex El Nino weather pattern that can bring disastrous heavy rainfall and long droughts to countries around the Pacific - from Peru to Indonesia and Australia - will probably emerge again in 2020, researchers have predicted. El Nino also can cause extended droughts in other parts of South America, Indonesia, Australia and Africa, PIK said. According to the WMO, 2016 became the warmest year on record because of the powerful El Niño in 2015-2016, combined with long-term climate change. The term El Niño, meaning “boy child” in Spanish, was first used in the 19th century by fishermen in Peru and Ecuador to refer to the unusually warm waters that reduced their catch just before Christmas, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). This is going to be helped by above average sea surface temperatures around many parts of the Australian coast line - which is also a feature that would boost the one off rainfall potential. Your email address will not be published. The so called El Nino-Southern ... average sea surface temperatures around many parts of the Australian coast ... indicated a return of "El Nino" type conditions at all in 2020. Connecting Livestock Buyers & Sellers: Your one-stop shop for livestock news, reports and sale listings. The new prediction method could give more time for authorities to prepare for such impacts, Mr. Ludescher added. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director emeritus of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), said insights from the new method — which has been tested over the past few years — would be made available to people affected by El Nino.