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Sources: Agence France Presse, Wall Street Journal, Newsday, Encyclopedia Americana, Scripps Howard News Service
Sometimes there can be a wide gulf between the two. In Australia, for example, El Nino caused extremely dry conditions that for a while last year had farmers contemplating suicide. But as it turns out, some rain did fall--just in time to rescue the wheat harvest from disaster. Does...
In fact, this El Nino has showcased the progress climatologists have made over the past 15 years in understanding the earth's climate machine and the forces that drive it. In 1997, as soon as climate modelers spotted the area of warm water forming in the Pacific, they launched a...
This eastward flow is central to the physics that drive El Nino, says Scripps' Nicholas Graham. The sloshing sends waves across the ocean like ripples in a pond. These waves, in turn, push down on the so-called thermocline, a layer of cooler water that normally mingles with the warmer...
La Nina can bring its own set of weather headaches: a drier, hotter southern tier and a wetter, colder north. "Like a pendulum that goes back and forth, El Nino is one side of the extreme and La Nina is the other," says Scripps' Lisa Goddard. Although the magnitude of...