La Niña climate pattern is officially over. But El Niño may already be on its way
They are the opposite phases of what is called the El Niño-Southern Oscillation system.
Tag: El Nino
Climate change might be brewing a megadrought in the western US
"It has been made much worse than it would have been because of climate change," the authors explain.
Scientists produce ‘impossible’ 400-year-long record of El Niño events
The researchers drilled coral cores in order to extend the climate record of El Ninos.
NASA creates first 3D model of Amazon rainforest canopy to estimate the effects of droughts, climate change
Drought has a massive effect on rainforests. Bad news in the current changing climate.
What is El Niño?
El Niño is an oscillation of the ocean-atmosphere system in the tropical Pacific which impacts weather patterns.
El Niño shaping up in the Pacific: might be strongest since 1950
According to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), there's now a mature El Niño present in the Pacific Ocean. As is ...
It’s official: 2014 hottest year on record – all without the help of El Niño
At the beginning of the year, ZME Science reported 2014 was the 18th straight year to have surpassed average 20th-century ...
El Nino likely to develop this year – Australian scientists estimate 70% chances
The scientists from the Australian Meteorology Bureau estimate that there's a good chance that El Nino will form in the ...
The El Niño turns out to be more chaotic than previously thought
Why would the El Niño be important for the rest of us that don't live in the western part of ...
