ИСТИНА

El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is one of the most striking anomalies in the climate system of our planet. Recently it has been established [Ashok et al., 2007; Kug et al., 2009] that El Niño appears in two different flavors: the canonical El Niño, which is characterized by the maximum SST anomalies in the eastern Pacific, and El Niño Modoki with maximum anomalies localized in the center of the Pacific Ocean, near the date line. Recent studies demonstrated [Ashok et al., 2007; Weng et al., 2009; Mo, 2010 et al.] that the remote response to the two types of El Niño is drastically different, being opposite in some areas. Based on the regression analysis the air temperature and precipitation anomalies observed during canonical and Modoki El Niño were defined. However, the structure and mechanisms of this response are fairly understood. A comprehensive analysis of the atmospheric circulation anomalies resulted from two types of El Niño may emerge the causes of different remote response associated to the two types of El Niño