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Cause and effect graph
El Niño
Center node
El Nino Onset
The anchor of this map (event). Its strongest causes and effects fan out around it.
Causal relationship
El Nino Onset → El Nino Forecast
Rising Pacific SSTs push forecasters to raise the probability and expected strength of the developing El Nino.
Causal relationship
El Nino Onset → Drought
Super El Niño disrupts rainfall patterns, causing severe drought in affected regions
Causal relationship
Pacific Sst → El Nino Onset
A positive equatorial-Pacific SST anomaly (Nino-3.4) is the defining physical condition that constitutes an El Nino event.
Causal relationship
El Nino Onset → Monsoon Disruption
El Nino warming shifts convection away from the Indian Ocean, weakening the southwest monsoon and opening large rainfall deficits.
Causal relationship
El Nino Onset → Food Prices
El Nino-driven supply shortfalls in cocoa, palm oil and other tropical crops push global food and soft-commodity prices higher.
El Nino Onset
Where the map converges: 1 cause feed in and 4 effects ripple out.
Evidence
0.50Super El Niño disrupts rainfall patterns, causing severe drought in affected regions
Source: strongest evidenced effect link
Node detail
strength 64El Nino Forecast
Best path: El Nino Onset → El Nino Forecast
Tour tips
FinaleMake any node the center to re-orient the map, then use discover more to grow the promising branches.
Center orientation
Lineage fans out from the selected center.
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