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Coral Reefs
A sharp increase in water temperatures as seen in El Nino years can cause coral bleaching and eventual death to the coral. Photo: Bleaching occurs when coral ...
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SoundNet - Whale Culture - A New Report
ScienCentral News reports, the latest research into a question that has puzzled scientists for years. The Language of Whales Humans may not be the only mammals who have different cultures ... accent seem to thrive in El Nino years, when the water is much warmer, while the group without the accent prefers the colder waters of normal years. Whitehead acknowledges that not everyone agrees ...
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The Hadley model shows that there may be some years that are not too different from what we are experiencing at present, but there may be some years where it is considerably hot. (Changes in growing season) If the ... summer might be very typical of those that occur during El Nino years. Summary Climate change in the Great Lakes region will be manifested ...
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Grist | = Heat Beat | How's the Weather | 19 Apr 2002
El=20 Nino year, with temperatures expected to be higher than in = non-El=20 Nino years. This year, El Nino has not yet fully emerged, = though it ... to recover from serious episodes of mortality over the = course of 10=20 to 15 years, according to Goreau, if the waters are clean = and sea=20 temperatures do not return ...
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what is el nino?
Skip Navigation What Is an El Niño? The waters off the west coast ... event is called El Niño, Spanish for "the child." Every 2 to 7 years, however, this warm water event lasts much longer and is much more pronounced ... reversed. This periodic reversal in the pressure pattern has been recognized for many years and is called the Southern Oscillation. Fairly recently, the connection between these two ...
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El Niño: Hot Air over Hot Water
Christmastime. Since the fishermen believed in the birth of the Christ child at Christmas ... Ecuador in South America. But if we've known about El Niño for four hundred years, why is everyone talking so much about the hot water this year? The 1997-1998 ...
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El Nino
El Nino Enviropedia Climate Change Global Warming Ozone Air Pollution Weather & Climate Sustainability Kids INFORMATION Home Contents ... . After an El Niño event, weather conditions usually return back to normal. However, in some years the easterly winds can become extremely strong and an abnormal accumulation of cold water can ...
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National Geographic Magazine Article: El Nino/La Nina--Part 1
Article: El Nino/La Nina--Part 1 Subscribe to National Geographic. Read personal tales of ... stopped rising. The rainfall itself was no surprise. Every three to seven years, for as long as anyone could remember, the same rainfall had arrived ... Desert. Where there had been nothing but arid hardscrabble waste for 15 years, suddenly—amazingly—lay the second largest lake in Peru: 90 miles [145 kilometers] ...
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NOAA/PMEL/TAO - What is an El Niño (ENSO)?
The El Niño in 1997-1998 is a very strong El Niño. El Niño years are easier to see in the anomalies on the right hand panel. The anomalies show ... . This is a strong La Niña, which occurs after some (but not all) El Niño years. 1995-1996 was a weaker La Niña year. It is unusual for El Niños to ...
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The TAO project: Definitions of El Nino
The TAO project: Definitions of El Nino Definitions of El Nino, La Nina, and ENSO Definitions of El Nino, La Nina, and ENSO El Niño (EN) is characterized by a large scale weakening ... later restricted to unusually strong warmings that disrupted local fish and bird populations every few years. However, as a result of the frequent association of South American coastal temperature anomalies with ...
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