El Niņo
Nowadays, the term El Niņo refers to the extensive warming of the central and eastern Pacific that leads to a major shift in weather patterns across the Pacific.
El Niņo
The extensive warming of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean that leads to a major shift in weather patterns across the Pacific.
EL NIŅO: A major warming of the equatorial waters in the Pacific Ocean. El Niņo events usually occur every 3 to 7 years, and are characterized by shifts in "normal" weather patterns.
ENSO: El Niņo-Southern Oscillation.
El Niņo - Spanish for little boy. A change in the Pacific ocean current causing warm water to surface near South America. It usually occurs 2 or 3 times per decade and typically starts around Christmas time, henceforth its name.
El Niņo- A major warming of the equatorial waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean. El Niņo events usually occur every 3 to 7 years, and are related to shifts in global weather patterns.
El Niņo- An event that occurs every two to seven years in the Pacific Ocean, during which winds shift and push warm surface water towards the coast of south America; it can cause dramatic climate changes.
El Niņo- Linked ocean and atmospheric events, which have worldwide effects, characterized by warming of the water in the tropical Pacific from around the International Date Line to the coast of Peru.
It is important to note that there is not a one-to-one correspondence between the occurrence of Southern Oscillation events and El Niņo events, using the spatially restrictive original definition of El Niņo.
Madden-Julian Oscillation(abbrev. MJO)- Tropical rainfall exhibits strong variability on time scales shorter than the seasonal El Niņo-Southern Oscillation (ENSO).
Two main characteristics distinguish PDO from El Niņo/Southern Oscillation (ENSO): first, 20th century PDO "events" persisted for 20-to-30 years, while typical ENSO events persisted for 6 to 18 months; second, ...
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Because this condition often occurs around Christmas, it was named El Niņo (Spanish for boy child, referring to the Christ child).
Philander, S. George: Our Affair with El Niņo: How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current into a Global Climate Hazard, 2004, Princeton University Press, ISBN 0691113351 (HC).
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