Flipping the Western United States El Niño Precipitation Pattern during the 2015/16 Winter

Xiaosong Yang1, Gabriel Vecchi2, Liwei Jia3, Sarah B Kapnick4, Thomas L Delworth5, Rich Gudgel6 and Seth Underwood6, (1)NOAA, GFDL, Princeton, United States, (2)Princeton University, Department of Geosciences and at the Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (6)NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States