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Consecutive El Niños are happening more often and the result is more devastating – new research
In recent decades, these climate patterns have been persisting longer and recurring more often. A striking example is the ...
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El Nino's Grip on Climate
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 ...
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El Niño Good Boy or Bad?
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 ...
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Ancient El Niños were much stronger: 250M years of Earth’s climate swings revealed
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 ...
Study reveals key linkages between westerly wind bursts and El Niño development
El Niño, a climate phenomenon marked by warming sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific, is ...
Consecutive El Niños are happening more often and the result is more devastating, research suggests
El Niño, a climate troublemaker, has long been one of the largest drivers of variability in the global climate. Every few ...