The El Nino Southern Oscillation

From June to November the water and air temperature are colder because of the Humboldt Current, this is nutrient water that attracts fish and sea birds. The sky is filled with clouds, wind is stronger and seas a bit rougher.[VISUAL AID]

Peru is an ever-changing climate system due to the mixture of terrain and climate that consist of everything from tropical forest in the east and deserts in the west. Additionally, in the Andes Mountains the temperature is always much colder than the rest of the Country and is located in the center of the Country. Peru maintains a stable southern hemisphere climate, one that is near reversed of the northern hemisphere with the summer months being December through February and the winter following in July through September. However, off the coast of South America an event changes the weather that happens every 2-7 years. The local citizens have named this event El Nino, which means "The Little Boy" due to its occurrence in December. During El Nino, the waters off Peru's coast begin to warm and cause large numbers of fish to die, effecting the wildlife and local population greatly. The fishers that live on the coast of Peru suffer tremendously due to the fish that die off are their main source of food and food production during this event. Additionally,

Can El Niño save California from wildfires, wilting crops and weary front lawns? The tropical event which causes the Pacific to warm and generally increases precipitation may be California’s Hail Mary. Indeed, there are reasons climatologists are optimistic about its arrival as California experienced two of its wettest years during two of El Niño’s visits -- in 1982 and 1997. The expectation that the powerful brewing storm will pummel California with precipitation sounds reasonable, but will that be enough? According to a NYT article, the state may just be hard-wired for continued drought and needs a real solution, not a hope and a prayer. Riding into the storm with a yearlong rain deficit, El Niño, the hopeful hero of the drought would theoretically

It is important to understand the various cycles our atmosphere goes through due to how they affect our daily lives. The ENSO Cycle has a large impact globally and locally in California as we have seen with the long-term drought Southern California is currently in. The ENSO cycle can be defined by sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly in the Pacific Equatorial Area known as Nino 3.4 region (5oN-5oS, 120o-170oW). Unusually cooler waters (-.5 degrees centigrade) occurring for three consecutive months outlines a La Niña. La Niña’s bring wetter weather to Australia and Indonesia but often leaves the Eastern Pacific dry. Unlike La Niña’s, unusually warm water (+.5 degrees centigrade above average) occurring for 3 consecutive month’s outlines an

With the upcoming El Niño, Los Angeles is at harm from any effects, such as landslides, mudflows, and flooding. El Niño has severely affected the coastal areas of Los Angeles County three times during the years of 1977-1978, 1982-1983, and 1997-1998 (FEMA, 2011). Los Angeles County has several watersheds such as the Los Angeles River, Santa Monica Bay, and San Gabriel River (LADPW) that serve to reduce flooding, but it may not have the proper infrastructure to prevent commercial or residential areas from flooding. Los Angeles may not have levees that can protect its areas because they might be structurally inferior or are not approved by FEMA (City of Los Angeles, Engineering. 2015). There are many hilly areas in Los Angeles, and residential

The ocean's surface waters are separated from colder, deeper water by a thermocline. The upwelling of cold waters, along the equator in the eastern half of the pacific basin, can be blocked when sea level is high, resulting in warm events. When sea levels are low the thermocline tends to be shallow, allowing upwelling motions to bring cold water to the surface, resulting in cold conditions. How it's measured is by devices used to track decadal variability and climate patterns which includes thermometers, rain gauges, and stream gauges. Sea surfaces temperature is important in tracking ENSO and other ocean oscillations. This can be measured by the distance

Elnino is a warming cycle in the water that had been warming up every year. Every year the temperature has come to increase. This is very dangerous if the water gets too hot something can happen to the crops air and destroy everything in society if it becomes hotter. For now in 2017 the water cold increase in hurricane season . Thats is not good because it could damage our world even more , by creating more hurricanes. Heer are many topics on Elńino What is El´nino:” El Nino is a climate cycle in the Pacific Ocean with a global impact on weather patterns. The cycle begins when warm water in the western tropical Pacific Ocean shifts eastward along the equator toward the coast of South America.”(Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

In the article “New El Nino coming on strong” by Janet Raloff they explain how we might be on the verge of a record breaking El Nino.El Nino is Spanish for boy and it's a set of weather changes that happens every few years bringing heat, rain and drought to different areas.Scientists say it could compete with the “super El Ninos” of 1982 and 1997.The event is the largest it's been for this year .But with the rain El Nino brings to California will it solve our drought?

What I learned from this recording was, that El Nino and the Pacific decadal isolation will last for about 20 years; but these trends of climate change that are occurring are not very well known or understood by the people living around these areas. The warming trend is now relatively new to people learning about climate change. In early 2014 there was unusual warm water in the pacific northwest, deemed the “blob”. It is warm enough to have a big impact on the ecosystem; it is over 1k miles across, and warms the water in its capacity about 4-5 degrees Fahrenheit. Still, the scientist are looking for causation of this blob. Weather patterns are sought to be in correlation of this blob. The triple ridicules resilient ridge is a pressure zone in California that one scientist in this radio broadcast reported, caused the blob. The trends that were seen in this warming of the oceans were that tropical species started to migrate northward when El Nino was around. These migratory patterns and changes to ecosystems cause for biodiversity which evidently so, is not viewed as a good thing in this case for the Pacific Northwest region. The blob has warmed up the pacific coast region in its time of existence. There is an upside to the shortcoming of El Nino, on the west coast, trends show that it slows down the acidification

Easterly trade winds, can filter and transform into westerlies. Thus, allowing great masses of warm water to flow from the western Pacific toward the Americas. This then can reduce the upwelling of cooler, nutrient-rich waters from the ocean and shut down or reverse it completely. Overall, El Nino alters ocean life by reducing the fish populations along the eastern Pacific shores and it does this in a couple distinctive ways. As El Nino weakens upwelling of cool nutrient-rich water to the ocean surface, the amount of phytoplankton decreases.

The segment lasted for 26:39 minutes. El Nino is an event where warm water shifts to other parts of the world and produces enhanced rainfall conditions; they are fairly predictable. El Nino, along with La Nina, impacts the intensity and timing of rainy seasons. There are multiple hypotheses to describe these events, but more knowledge is needed for sure. Several studies suggest that El Ninos are affected by global warming, where they become more extreme and occur more often. Due to this current event, tropical climates have been substantially affected. The current one affects the fevers and sicknesses in such climates, reaching as far as East Africa. It has even been linked to Cholera disease in Bangladesh. Those cases are more likely during

In a normal year, warm surface water is blown towards Australia. This creates heavy rain to parts of Australia. At the other side, South America experiences some drought. When there is an El Niño, those winds and surface ocean currents reverse the direction. The warm air is moved to South America. This makes the opposite happen, produces rain in South America and drought in

Trends in globally and annually averaged temperature when considering whether it was an El Niño year, a La Niña year, or a neutral year (no El Niño or La Niña event). The average global temperature is 0.4ºF higher in El Niño years than in La Niña years. However, all trends show the same significant increase in temperature over the past 45 years. The years for the short-term cooling effect following the Mt. Pinatubo volcanic eruption are not included in the trends. (Figure source: adapted from John Nielsen-Gammon 2012. Data from NASA GISS temperature dataset and Climate Prediction Center Niño 3.4

El nino and la nina are total opposites. They usually happen one time every three to seven years near christmas time or mid winter. El nino is a warm pool of water that heats the ocean and takes place in the pacific ocean and normally west of south america.el nino can spread and have effects on many places around the globe.el nino uses the earth's atmosphere to form. using the atmosphere

nearly all the way up to the surface in the east and depressing in the west.