El Niño-Southern Oscillation Modulation of Tropical Cyclone Climatology over the Southwest Pacific
Tropical cyclones (TCs) cause major devastation across the Southwest Pacific, a region that includes small island developing states such as Fiji and Vanuatu, as well as New Zealand. TC activity in this basin is strongly influenced by the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which alters sea surface temperature (SST) gr...