Up to 20 inches of added rain fell between December 1997 and March 1998, triggering widespread and persistent phytoplankton blooms along the west coast of Florida. Water-column chlorophyll concentrations estimated from serial SeaWiFS imagery were much higher during the El N...
most El Niño winters are mild over western Canada and parts of the northern United States, and wet over the southern United States from Texas to Florida. El Niño affects temperate climates in other seasons as well. But even during wintertime, El Niño is only one of a number of fact...
It is critical to note that some El Niño events did not necessarily cause droughts in Southern Africa in some years, as expected but went on to cause average to above-normal rainfall events. This is particularly true for the 2010 El Niño event with a Nino index of 1.8, which is a...
1/209 Orlando, Florida, is one of the most visited places in the United States, a fact that has spurred its development during the past three decades. The next six images show just how much the city has expanded. This image is from January 1982. (NASA) ...
The strength of an El Niño also has an effect on these wintertime patterns. Stronger El Niños tend to push the ridge farther to the east, sometimes allowing above-seasonal conditions to push all the way to the Great Lakes, shunt...
El Nino pattern water temperatures compared to the average. (FOX Weather) "It’s not just that we have not seen these temperatures lately; it’s that we’ve never seen this kind of warming in the eastern Atlantic," Norcross said. With historic warming anomalies, Norcross said it's too ea...
These facts suggest that even without considering the ocean heat content, SST conditions can exert a damping effect on TC intensification, thus weakening the landfall intensity during El Niño. In this study, we identified the effects of cool SST barriers on landfall intensity during El Niño ...
(DMI) and Nino3.4 SST anomaly time series. The vectors show the partial regression coefficients of wind anomalies with DMI, controlling for Nino3.4, foraMay—July,bAugust—October, andcNovember—January. The shaded contours on the left are for marine cloudiness, which were analyzed in the same...
El Niño is a pattern of warmer-than-normal sea surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean near the equator. This warmupcan have a profound effect on the atmosphere—including increased wind shear flowing east over the Atl...
which have collected data for more than 50 years. It also provides a new outlook for the 2016 meteorological year, taking into account the La Niña conditions anticipated to develop in the coming months. La Niña typically has less effect on tidal flood frequencies compared to El Niño, ...