The Southern Oscillation was discovered by British climatologist Gilbert Walker in 1904, but it was Norwegian American meteorologist Jacob Bjerknes who formulated the first conceptual model of the large-scale ocean-atmosphere interactions during El Niño episodes in the early 1960s. Bjerknes was also the first to recognize the connection between El Nino and the Southern Oscillation.
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