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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

#534241 — 2015 and 1997 El Ninos—deja vu, or something new?

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 Niños, 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 Niño.
>
> "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.


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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.

 

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