El Niño and La Niña events have been influencing the global weather for at least 250 million years. Understanding the past ...

Satellite imagery can help determine the strength, size and cohesion of a storm. The stronger a storm becomes, the more ...

are climatological events that are part of a natural cycle called the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, or ENSO. It represents ...

A new modeling study shows that the El Nino event, a huge blob of warm ocean ... of the ocean and "atmospheric noise" of ocean surface winds. Previous studies have focused on ocean temperatures ...

All of these conditions are more drastic examples of side effects of the modern weather events known as El Niño and La Niña. But making these discoveries wasn’t a breeze. It took months of effort from ...

"Atmospheric noise – the winds – can act just like a random kick to this pendulum," Hu said. "We found both factors to be important when we want to understand why the El Niño was way stronger ...

Under normal conditions, trade winds blowing westwards along the equator carry warm water from South America to Asia. However, El Niño and La Niña cause disruptions to this normal situation by ...

"Atmospheric noise—the winds—can act just like a random kick to this pendulum," Hu said. "We found both factors to be important when we want to understand why the El Niño was way stronger ...

and was often linked to El Niño. But Monash University's analysis of more than three decades of atmospheric weather has unlocked the role of easterly "trade" winds responsible for regulating the ...

Normally, trade winds blow west along the equator in the Pacific Ocean, moving warm water towards Asia. El Niño and La Niña break these normal conditions, and a La Niña event is marked by even ...

Here's what to know about the El Niño and La Niña patterns and how ... During a La Niña event, trade winds that blow east to west near the equator intensify. Stronger winds push warm water ...