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| From | jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | sci.physics |
| Subject | Re: 2015 and 1997 El Ninos—deja vu, or something new? |
| Date | 2015-11-20 22:04 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <ovh4ic-c5.ln1@mail.specsol.com> (permalink) |
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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote: > 2015 and 1997 El Ninos?deja vu, or something new? >> http://phys.org/news/2015-11-el-ninosdeja-vu.html > > >> When it comes to El Ni?os, however, there are no identical twins. >> This year's event hasn't always resembled the '97 one. Satellite >> observations from early '97 and early '15 show conditions in the >> Pacific Ocean that were, well, oceans apart. >> >> In its "normal" state, the Pacific is warm on the western side and >> cooler in the east. That's what the ocean looked like in 1996 and >> early 1997. Conversely, over the past 18 months or so, satellite >> images have shown a large pool of warm water hovering around the >> equator in the central Pacific?neither west, as in a normal year, nor >> east, as in a typical El Ni?o. >> >> "That warm patch started last year and it never disappeared. It's >> very peculiar behavior," said Tong Lee, an oceanographer at NASA's >> Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. Yawn. It is a periodic phenomena that was likely happening before humans appeared. -- Jim Pennino
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2015 and 1997 El Ninos—deja vu, or something new? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-20 12:57 -0600 Re: 2015 and 1997 El Ninos—deja vu, or something new? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-20 22:04 +0000
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