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  • climate
    / The ocean surface and climate anomalies

    …of upward motion known as convergence zones. This process liberates latent heat of condensation, which in turn provides a major fraction of the energy to drive tropical circulation and is one of the mechanisms responsible for the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon discussed later in this article.

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    …of upward motion known as convergence zones. This process liberates latent heat of condensation, which in turn provides a major fraction of the energy to drive tropical circulation and is one of the mechanisms responsible for the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon discussed later in this article.

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  • climate
    / Conditions associated with cyclone formation

    …summarized as follows:

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    …summarized as follows:

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