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ESSIC Announces End-of-Year Awards

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Last week, the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center held their annual Collaborative Partner Reception and Awards Ceremony. During the event, ESSIC Director Lars Peter Riishojgaard

Figure 2. Correlations between anomaly patterns of individual months (40oN-40oS) and El Nino and La Nina composites during January 2025-December 2025. Also shown is Nino 3.4.

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ESSIC Announces End-of-Year Awards

December 18, 2025

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ESSIC seeks to understand the relationships between Earth's atmosphere, oceans, land masses and biosphere, with an eye to the influence of human activities on Earth's coupled systems.

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ESSIC in the News

ESSIC Announces End-of-Year Awards

Global Precipitation Summary for December 2025

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Pacific Northwest Atmospheric Rivers & Catastrophic Flooding

ESSIC Announces End-of-Year Awards

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