Periodic Reporting for period 1 - MIONIÑO (Resolving the debate on a permanent El Niño-like state in the late Miocene: establishing equatorial Pacific conditions, driving forces and global impacts.)

MIONIÑO aimed to resolve whether a permanent El Niño-like state, with warm waters spreading across the equatorial Pacific, existed during the Late Miocene. Today’s El Niño causes global climate anomalies, so past permanent El Niño-like states may have had serious, global...