The birth of El Niño. This animation shows anomalies, or departures from normal, in Sea Surface Temperature (SST) over the past year. As spring became summer in 1997, a Kelvin Wave of warm water crossed the Pacific and accumulated off the coast of South America, shown here in red. From https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elnino/anatomy/sst.html.Map of atmospheric temperature and changes in temperature from Komacek & Showman (2019).Brightness map and changes in brightness from Komacek & Showman (2019).Variations in the brightness of the hot Jupiter Kepler-76b. From Jackson et al. (2019).
