El Nino exerts powerful control on Earth's climate ... trade winds along the equator, and (2) a shallow thermocline in the east (the thermocline is the sharp thermal boundary separating warm ...
In recent decades, these climate patterns have been persisting longer and recurring more often. A striking example is the 2020-2023 La Niña, a rare “triple-dip” event that lasted for three years.
New research reveals that El Niño ... while the weakest occurred during the pre-industrial period. The research identified two primary controlling factors: thermocline depth and atmospheric ...
El Niño, a climate phenomenon marked by warming sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific, is ...
(It's always raining over an El Niño, and the rainwater dilutes the sea.) Both of these conditions contribute to buoyancy. A sharp temperature and density change—called the thermocline—floats ...
El Niño has important effects on the world’s economies ... to accumulate warm ocean water along the coastline of Peru. This phenomenon causes the thermocline—a transition layer between warmer mixed ...