Difference between revisions of "El Niño"
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El Niño and La Niña can cause the "seasonal climate" -- the cumulative effects of the [[weather]] over a season -- to deviate from normal at many places around the globe. [http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/ENSO/enso.climate.html] | El Niño and La Niña can cause the "seasonal climate" -- the cumulative effects of the [[weather]] over a season -- to deviate from normal at many places around the globe. [http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/ENSO/enso.climate.html] | ||
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| + | Several aspects of the atmosphere's behavior are remarkable and entirely unique to the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomena. Some normally arid tropical habitats are transformed into virtual gardens during El Niño. Abundant and reliable rains in other tropical areas become sparse and intermittent during El Niño. Extreme climates have also been experienced in the higher latitudes during ENSO, though these are by no means unique to ENSO. One marvels that the atmosphere, especially thousands of kilometers remote from the equatorial Pacific, knows about the modest 1°° warming of those waters during El Niño! Yet, all regions of the globe are not equally affected, nor is ENSO's impact uniform throughout the year. [http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/ENSO/enso.description.html] | ||
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Revision as of 17:51, August 8, 2007
El Niño is a weather pattern.
El Niño and La Niña can cause the "seasonal climate" -- the cumulative effects of the weather over a season -- to deviate from normal at many places around the globe. [1]
Several aspects of the atmosphere's behavior are remarkable and entirely unique to the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomena. Some normally arid tropical habitats are transformed into virtual gardens during El Niño. Abundant and reliable rains in other tropical areas become sparse and intermittent during El Niño. Extreme climates have also been experienced in the higher latitudes during ENSO, though these are by no means unique to ENSO. One marvels that the atmosphere, especially thousands of kilometers remote from the equatorial Pacific, knows about the modest 1°° warming of those waters during El Niño! Yet, all regions of the globe are not equally affected, nor is ENSO's impact uniform throughout the year. [2]