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Ligin Joseph @ligin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My latest explainer on how El Niño can bring drought to some regions and flooding to others.

Ligin Joseph @ligin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How can the same El Niño bring drought to some places and flooding to others? My new @uk.theconversation.com explainer breaks down the Walker circulation, teleconnections and other mechanisms in simple terms, with a schematic I created for the piece. tinyurl.com/4vak6pc7 #ElNino #ClimateScience

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Ligin Joseph @ligin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In my latest article for @uk.theconversation.com, I look at this year’s Indian monsoon paradox: drier than normal overall, potentially influenced by El Niño, yet still bringing extreme rainfall, floods and landslides. tinyurl.com/yycyjfem @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social #ElNino #IndianMonsoon.

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A ‘super El Niño’ could make India’s monsoon drier yet more dangerous

El Niño summers can mean less rain overall, but more extreme daily rainfall.

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Ligin Joseph @ligin.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Climate change and temperature are closely linked: as CO₂ rises, most of the planet warms. But rainfall is more complex. Are recent tropical rainfall trends following the Wet-Get-Wetter or Warm-Get-Wetter paradigms, or is something else driving the changes?

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Ligin Joseph @ligin.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Our new paper on marine heatwaves in the North Indian Ocean is now published in Frontiers in Climate. We identify distinct modes of marine heatwave variability shaped by interactions between ENSO and the Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillation. Read more: www.frontiersin.org/journals/cli...

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Ligin Joseph @ligin.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

New paper out in @jgroceans.bsky.social. Upper-ocean heat content in the Western Indian Ocean increases despite declining surface heat flux → driven by heat transport and convergence. Joint work: @unisouthampton.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk and IIT BBS 🔗 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

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Ligin Joseph @ligin.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

In my latest article for @uk.theconversation.com, I break down how warmer oceans, higher evaporation, slow storm motion, and coastal proximity can turn even weak cyclones into intense rainmakers.

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Ligin Joseph @ligin.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Wrote an article for The Conversation on this year’s extreme monsoon rainfall and its increasing trend. It summarizes some of the major flooding events this year, explores their causes, and discusses the long-term trend in extreme monsoon precipitation over India.

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Ligin Joseph @ligin.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

🌍 Global Sea Surface Temperatures (SST) are steadily rising 🌊. This radial plot shows monthly SST anomalies averaged over 60°S–60°N. Each ring = a year, and segments = months, highlighting the growing intensity of positive SST anomalies due to climate change.

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Ligin Joseph @ligin.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The 2024 Southwest Monsoon in India recorded 7.6% above the Long Period Average (LPA), marking an 'excess rainfall' year. This visualization shows monsoon trends over decades, revealing fluctuations influenced by ENSO and IOD phases. Thanks to @lijodxl.bsky.social for insightful suggestions!

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