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Average rainfall deciles for 12 moderate to strong El Niño events. [Deciles rank a time series into 10% bins. So Decile 1 is the 10% of years with lowest rainfall, while decile 10 is the 10% of years with highest rainfall.]
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  Average rainfall deciles for 12 moderate to strong El Niño events. [Deciles rank a time series into 10% bins. So Decile 1 is the 10% of years with lowest rainfall, while decile 10 is the 10% of years with highest rainfall.]