The extreme 2015/16 El Niño, in the context of historical climate variability and change

Matthew Newman, University of Colorado/CIRES and NOAA/PSL, Boulder, United States, Andrew Thorne Wittenberg, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, Linyin Cheng, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, Gilbert P Compo, CIRES and Physical Sciences Laboratory/NOAA, Boulder, United States and Catherine Anne Smith, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States