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This chapter focuses on solar signal and ENSO connection (if any) in recent centuries. The discussion begins with two contradictory findings: Contradiction (I), solar signal on tropical Pacific SST-active solar years and ENSO and Contradiction (II), solar signal on tropical Pacific SST – El Niño or La Niña. It reconciled those contradictions and additionally proposed two different mechanisms. The mechanisms differ in the earlier period to that from the later.
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Roy, I. (2018). The Sun and ENSO Connection–Contradictions and Reconciliations. In: Climate Variability and Sunspot Activity. Springer Atmospheric Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77107-6_8
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