Dynamical excitation of the tropical Pacific Ocean and ENSO variability by Little Ice Age cooling

East joins West to complete a picture How have eastern equatorial Pacific sea surface temperatures varied over the past 1000 years? Today, the tropical Pacific Ocean has a large influence on global climate, through processes such as El Niño. Researchers would thus like to know how the ocean varied in the past. Although good records exist from the western ocean, the same has not been true for the eastern side. Rustic et al. analyzed marine...