Lecture 19: El Niño & La Niña
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What is ENSO?
El Niño-Southern Oscillation; interannual climate pattern in the Pacific Ocean
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What is El Niño?
Warming phase: weak trade winds, warm water moves east, suppresses upwelling, alters weather worldwide
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What is La Niña?
Cooling phase: strong trade winds, enhanced upwelling, cooler SSTs in Pacific, opposite impacts of El Niño
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What are Walker and Hadley Circulations?
Atmospheric patterns altered by ENSO; shift during El Niño/La Niña events
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How does ENSO affect weather globally?
Droughts, floods, storms in different regions; impacts agriculture, economies
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