What are El Nino and La Nina? - NOAA's National Ocean Service
El Niño causes the Pacific jet stream to move south and spread further east. During winter, this leads to wetter conditions than usual in the Southern U.S. and warmer and drier conditions in …
El Niño & La Niña (El Niño-Southern Oscillation) | NOAA ...
El Niño and La Niña have very little impact on summer climate in the contiguous United States. Their strongest influence occurs in winter. But they do influence the seasonal hurricane activity …
What is "El Niño" and what are its effects? | U.S. Geological ...
The term El Niño (Spanish for 'the Christ Child') refers to a warming of the ocean surface, or above-average sea surface temperatures, in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.
El Niño–Southern Oscillation - Wikipedia
The Southern Oscillation is the accompanying atmospheric oscillation, which is coupled with the sea temperature change. El Niño is associated with higher than normal air sea level pressure …
What are El Niño and La Niña, and how do they change ... - BBC
Apr 16, 2024 · The extreme weather events worsened by El Niño and La Niña affect infrastructure, food and energy systems around the world.
Understanding El Niño | National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
Feb 2, 2016 · El Niño is a naturally occurring ocean-atmosphere climate pattern associated with warming of the ocean surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, …
El Niño - Science@NASA
Feb 14, 2017 · Although El Niño has the most direct impacts on life in the equatorial Pacific, its effects propagate north and south along the coast of the Americas, affecting marine life all …