El Niño’s demise from its strong winter peak is well underway, and we can see this happening using an analysis of sea-surface temperatures. W arm Pacific Ocean waters are slowly cooling ...
El Nino is a Spanish word that means "little ... higher temperatures in the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean, and improved monsoon rains in India. In fact, La Niña tends to be beneficial for ...
El Nino exerts powerful control on Earth's climate ... The journey of discovery began after the 19 th century Indian famines, when Sir Gilbert Walker was dispatched from Cambridge to investigate ...
El Niño has important effects on the world’s economies—and not all of them are bad The current El Niño (Spanish for “The Boy”)—a band of above-average ocean surface temperatures that develops every 3 ...
Experts believe that a strong El Niño weather event - a weather system that heats the ocean - will also set in over the next months. Warmer oceans can kill off marine life, lead to more extreme ...
Modeling experiments show Pacific warm and cold patches persisted even when continents were in different places The El Niño event, a huge blob of warm ocean water in the tropical Pacific Ocean that ...