Climate Change 2001:
Working Group I: The Scientific Basis
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Figure 7.8: Simplified principal feedback loops active in El Niño- Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The fast loop (right) gives rise to an instability responsible for the development of an El Niño, the slow loop (left) tends to dampen and reverse the anomalies, so that together, these processes excite oscillations.

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