Climate Trends by vanessa garcia https://padlet.com/vanessagarm/idgrth8x8sra El Niño and La Niña en-us 2018-04-26 17:42:12 UTC 2018-04-26 17:50:25 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Bigthunderstorm.png El Niño and La Niña are opposite phases of what is known as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle. The ENSO cycle is a scientific term that describes the fluctuations in temperature between the ocean and atmosphere in the east-central Equatorial Pacific vanessagarm https://padlet.com/vanessagarm/idgrth8x8sra/wish/255766885 2018-04-26 17:47:31 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessagarm/idgrth8x8sra/wish/255766885 vanessagarm https://padlet.com/vanessagarm/idgrth8x8sra/wish/255767326 La Niña is sometimes referred to as the cold phase of ENSO and El Niño as the warm phase of ENSO. These deviations from normal surface temperatures can have large-scale impacts not only on ocean processes, but also on global weather and climate.]]> 2018-04-26 17:48:26 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessagarm/idgrth8x8sra/wish/255767326 El Niño vanessagarm https://padlet.com/vanessagarm/idgrth8x8sra/wish/255767649 El Niño means The Little Boy, or Christ Child in Spanish. El Niño was originally recognized by fishermen off the coast of South America in the 1600s, with the appearance of unusually warm water in the Pacific Ocean. The name was chosen based on the time of year (around December) during which these warm waters events tended to occur.]]> 2018-04-26 17:49:08 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessagarm/idgrth8x8sra/wish/255767649 La Niña vanessagarm https://padlet.com/vanessagarm/idgrth8x8sra/wish/255768129 La Niña means The Little Girl in Spanish. La Niña is also sometimes called El Viejo, anti-El Niño, or simply "a cold event."


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