On February 10, 2022, Nature Geoscience, an international academic journal of geosciences, published online a paper entitled “El Niño/Southern Oscillation Inhibited by Submesoscale Ocean Eddies”. The first author Wang Shengpeng, is a PhD candidate at the Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System and Key Laboratory of Physical Oceanography, Ocean University of China (OUC). The research was completed in collaboration with other research teams at OUC and experts from home and abroad. It reveals, for the first time, that equatorial ocean eddies inhibit the growth of El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO）and provides a clear dynamical explanation.

As the most consequential mode of climate variability on our planet, the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) triggers adverse impact on severe weather events, agriculture and ecosystem around the world, which will have a cascade of global environmental and socioeconomic impact.