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What Is the Difference Between El Niño and La Niña?
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Images of sea-surface height taken during the El Nino episodes of 1997 and 2015. Diagram of the equatorial Pacific Ocean showing El Nino conditions, with weak trade winds, increased rainfall over South America, increased convection, a deepened thermocline, and suppressed upwelling. Map of the tropical Pacific Ocean highlighting the four ENSO (El Niño-Southern Oscillation) regions: Niño 4, Niño 3.4, Niño 3, and Niño 1+2. The regions are marked as colored rectangles along the equator from near Australia to the coast of South America, illustrating key zones used to monitor El Niño and La Niña climate events. World map illustrating the generalized weather effects of El Nino from December through February. Regions are labeled and shaded to show conditions such as warm in parts of North America, Asia, and South America; wet in the southern United States and eastern South America; dry and warm in southern Africa and Southeast Asia; wet and cool in the northern United States; and wet and warm across central and eastern equatorial Pacific. World map illustrating the generalized weather effects of La Nina from December through February. The map highlights regions experiencing wet, dry, cool, or warm conditions, such as wet and cool in southeastern Africa and Australia, dry in equatorial Africa, cool in northern North America and parts of South America, and dry and cool across the central Pacific.
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Images of sea-surface height taken during the El Niño episodes of 1997 and 2015, which help to compare the intensity and extent of warm water in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean
El Niño episodes are characterized by unusually warm ocean conditions along the tropical...
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Monitoring regions for the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
The important part of the equatorial Pacific Ocean is the Niño 3.4 region. The temperature...
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El Niño is associated with substantial changes to established weather patterns between December and February
The weather effects of El Niño include pronounced drought episodes in the western...
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La Niña is associated with substantial changes to established weather patterns between December and February
The weather effects of La Niña include increased rainfall in Southeast Asia, northern...
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The three phases of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
El Niño and La Niña mark two of the three phases of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation...
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