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Coral Reefs
Atmosphere Coral reefs thrive in a very narrow range of temperatures. 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 become stressed by heat, cold, chemicals, or other factors. Photo courtesy of NOAA. Some scientists believe that human actions are ...
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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. Some ... other. He notes that the whales with the last click accent seem to thrive in El Nino years, when the water is much warmer, while the group without the accent prefers the colder waters ...
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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 ... those that follow in the spring and summer might be very typical of those that occur during El Nino years. Summary Climate change in the Great Lakes region will be manifested by changes in winds and storm ...
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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=20 may kick in soon (Planet Ark, Reuters, 17 ... for = coral=20 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 to high levels again ...
globalcoral.org

what is el nino?
Skip Navigation What Is an El Nio? The waters off the west coast of South America are normally very cold for their latitudes. At Lima, Peru (12S), ocean ... pressure in the west are 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 events has been noted. ...
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El Niņo: Hot Air over Hot Water
America began to wonder about a current of unusually warm water that came to their shore every few years near Christmastime. Since the fishermen believed in the birth of the Christ child at Christmas, and since they ... of Peru and Ecuador in South America. But if we've known about El Nio for four hundred years, why is everyone talking so much about the hot water this year? The 1997-1998 El Nio may ...
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El Nino
Pacific Ocean along the coast of equatorial South America. El Nio occurs roughly every 2 to 7 years, usually around Christmas, and lasts usually for a few weeks or months. Sometimes an extremely warm ... up. After an El Nio 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 occur ...
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National Geographic Magazine Article: El Nino/La Nina--Part 1
National Geographic Magazine Article: El Nino/La Nina--Part 1 Subscribe to National Geographic. Read personal tales of El Nios effects in 1997-98. Web Sites El Nio: Making Sense of the ... into the coastal Sechura Desert. Where there had been nothing but arid hardscrabble waste for 15 years, suddenlyamazinglylay the second largest lake in Peru: 90 miles [145 kilometers] long, 20 miles [30 kilometers ...
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NOAA/PMEL/TAO - What is an El Niņo (ENSO)?
The El Nio in 1997-1998 is a very strong El Nio. El Nio years are easier to see in the anomalies on the right hand panel. The anomalies show how much the sea surface ... Pacific, in 1988-1989. This is a strong La Nia, which occurs after some (but not all) El Nio years. 1995-1996 was a weaker La Nia year. It is unusual for El Nios to occur in such rapid succession ...
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The TAO project: Definitions of El Nino
La Nina, and ENSO Definitions of El Nino, La Nina, and ENSO El Nio (EN) is characterized by a large scale weakening of the trade winds and warming of the surface layers ... was 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 interannual ...
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