La Niņa
La Niņa translates from Spanish as "the girl-child". The term "La Niņa" has recently become the conventional meteorological label for the opposite of the better known El Niņo.
La Niņa
The extensive cooling of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean. In Australia (particularly eastern Australia), La Niņa events are associated with warmer ocean temperatures and increased probability of wetter conditions. See El Niņo.
LA NIŅA: A cooling of the equatorial waters in the Pacific Ocean.
LAPSE RATE: The change in temperature with altitude in the atmosphere.
LIGHTNING: An electrical discharge from a thunderstorm.
La NiņaLa Niņa, a phase of ENSO, is a periodic cooling of surface ocean waters in the eastern tropical Pacific along with a shift in convection in the western Pacific further west than the climatological average.
The preliminary CPC definition of La Niņa is a phenomenon in the equatorial Pacific Ocean characterized by a negative sea surface temperature departure from normal (for the 1971-2000 base period), averaged over three months, ...
Large negative values of the SOI indicate a warm event, and large positive values indicate a cold event (also referred to as La Niņa).
 See also: Temperature, Ocean, Normal, Cloud, High
  
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