Posts for tag "ENSO"
‘The Blob’ And El Niño Harmed Pacific Ocean Productivity
The 2015-2016 El Niño and the Blob came together to harm productivity in the Pacific Ocean, say scientists at University of California, Santa Cruz.
- Posted July 20, 2016
El Niño And La Niña
The 2015-2016 El Niño has already gone down as one of the strongest ever in history. Some of its effects have included droughts as well as storms and flooding. It may very well have also been a...
- Posted May 13, 2016
Transition To La Niña Seems Likely
With El Niño waning, a question on the mind of a few meteorologists is whether La Niña will take its place. According to a release from Washington State University, the data indicate that La Niña is probably...
- Posted May 5, 2016
Study Of Deep Turbulence Reveals Ocean Currents Insights
New findings on small-scale turbulence deep in the Gulf of Mexico aid understanding of ocean currents, with implications for weather and climate models.
- Posted April 4, 2016
California Lakes Rebound With More Sierra Nevada Snowpack, Recent Rains
Water levels in California haven’t been good for some time. But there appears to be at least some relief coming, thanks to recent El Niño rains and building snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. For some water...
- Posted March 22, 2016
Airborne Effort Surveys Southern California Beaches’ Response To El Niño
Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography are creating a detailed survey of the elevations of Southern California beaches and cliffs in the midst of one of the strongest El Niño seasons of the last 60 years, according...
- Posted March 22, 2016
El Niño Pattern Of 2015 Different From Strong El Niño Of 1997 To 1998
Because of the powerful effects they can have on established regional weather patterns, especially with respect to rainfall, scientists have worked hard to study and predict El Niño events and their potential outcomes. In a release from...
- Posted March 4, 2016
X-Band Radar Monitors El Niño Rainfall Before And After Super Bowl
A few months before Super Bowl 50, scientists at Colorado State University were busy working to deploy a sophisticated radar system to monitor El Niño and predict associated extreme weather events, according to a release. The effort...
- Posted February 29, 2016
El Niño, Global Warming Exacerbate Coral Die-Off
According to a release from the American Geophysical Union, an unusually strong El Niño combined with a continued rise in ocean temperatures due to global warming has led to a third mass coral bleaching and die-off which...
- Posted February 26, 2016
NASA: 2015 Warmest Year On Record
Global warming continues, bringing with it higher average temperatures all over the Earth. Of recorded temperatures since 1880, when records began, the highest 15 out of 16 have occurred since 2001. In a release from NASA, researchers...
- Posted February 1, 2016
Great Lakes Ice Cover Passes 10 Percent
As of mid January, the percentage of ice cover on the Great Lakes had just crept over 10 percent, according to mlive. And scientists predict that there is little chance it will climb much higher over the...
- Posted January 25, 2016
Clouds Affect El Niño More Than Previously Realized
While it is widely acknowledged that El Niño/Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, affects weather, a Phys.org post suggests that while ENSO’s effects have been incorporated into many climate models, it is possible that a factor influencing ENSO has...
- Posted January 19, 2016
Mollusk Records Suggest Climate Models Misrepresent El Niño
The Holocene period, the last 10,000 years of Earth’s history, is viewed as a good analog for the climate conditions of today, as global climatic evidence suggests overall similarities. However, in a release from the University of...
- Posted January 4, 2016
Scientists Expect El Niño Will Bring Rainfall, Flooding For California
Researchers from California State University – Fullerton are predicting that this year’s El Niño will bring the potential of extreme flooding and rainfall for the state, according to a release. The odds are very good, they say,...
- Posted December 16, 2015
La Niña Brings Drought To Hawaii Instead Of Rains
Rainfall patterns in Hawaii have undergone large changes over the years, according to a release from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. While El Niño events would typically cause six months of drought in the Hawaiian Islands,...
- Posted November 19, 2015
NASA Satellites To Dissect 2015 El Niño Better Than Ever Before
El Niño has been appearing every 2 to 7 years, not only warming oceans but influencing weather events all over the world, including hurricanes, droughts and storms everywhere from the U.S. to the Philippines to Australia. Since...
- Posted November 2, 2015
Largest El Niño Since 1997 Predicted For 2015
Few weather phenomena can match El Niño for its impact on where, when and how heavily rain will fall. Drought-ending for some and catastrophic for others, the El Niño of 2015 is shaping up to be as...
- Posted August 19, 2015
Westerly wind bursts help predict the type and severity of El Nino
Including bursts of Pacific westerly winds could improve the accuracy of El Nino predictive models, according to a recent press release from the University of Maryland. Accounting for the winds could also help forecast the severity and...
- Posted April 27, 2015
Late, weak El Niño arriving in U.S. unlikely to provide much relief for California
El Niño has finally arrived in the United States, according to The Guardian. The weather phenomenon has been absent since the spring of 2010, but scientists expect the long-awaited El Niño will yield few results because it...
- Posted March 11, 2015
