El Ni\u00f1o 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 the strongest El Ni\u00f1o event in 1997 to 1998, NASA has launched 19 satellites to observe El Ni\u00f1o and other phenomena, according to a release.<\/p>\n
The 19 satellites combined with supercomputer processing for modeling climate systems will give scientists more analytical tools for monitoring and analyzing this year\u2019s El Ni\u00f1o than ever before. Data that will be collected include sea surface temperatures, sea surface height, surface current direction, atmospheric wind movement and ocean coloration. <\/p>\n
All of the data will give a global picture of El Ni\u00f1o activity and severity which was never before possible. Especially important is that the global data gathering will allow researchers to track droughts, improve warnings of impending floods and monitor fisheries and farmlands.<\/p>\n
Top image:\u00a0Comparison of 2015 sea surface height with the famous 1997 El Ni\u00f1o. (Credit: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" El Ni\u00f1o 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 the strongest El Ni\u00f1o event in 1997 to 1998, NASA has launched 19 satellites to observe El Ni\u00f1o […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":23690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,44],"tags":[381,103,347,111],"class_list":["post-23697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-oceans-coasts","tag-enso","tag-news-2","tag-oceans-coasts","tag-tropical-storms"],"remote_post_permalink":false,"remote_post_featured_image":false,"yoast_head":"\n