Our Affair with El Niño: How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current into a Global Climate HazardPrinceton University Press, 5 jun 2018 - 296 páginas Until 1997, few people had heard of the seasonal current that Peruvians nicknamed El Niño. But when meteorologists linked it to devastating floods in California, severe droughts in Indonesia, and strange weather everywhere, its name became entrenched in the common parlance faster than a typhoon making landfall. Bumper stickers appeared bearing the phrase "Don't blame me; blame El Niño." Stockbrokers muttered "El Niño" when the market became erratic. |
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... caused innumerable weather - related disasters worldwide . Although everybody now knows of him , he remains a mystery ... cause floods in California , droughts in Indo- nesia , mild winters in Canada , the disappearance of fish from the ...
... cause of the expectation that crops would be poor and that farmers would be unable to pay back any loans , banks in ... caused a drought . The tragedy in Zimbabwe raises many questions . Why did the policy makers in Zimbabwe assign too ...
... cause poor harvests . Such events used to con- tribute to horrendous famines that led to the deaths of millions of people . That no longer happens , not because of advances in the prediction of the monsoons , but mainly because of ...
... cause the pendulum to come to a standstill . This argument suggests that we are deal- ing with an unending cycle ... causing a significant amplification and acceler- ation of developments . The absence of appropriate random dis ...
... causing the thermocline to tilt steeply so that cold water is exposed to the surface in the east . During El Niño , when the winds are relaxed , the interface between the warm surface Strong Trades West Warm Thermocline East West Warm ...
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OUR DILEMMA | 63 |
COMMON GROUND | 91 |
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SCIENCE | 159 |
COPING WITH HAZARDS | 235 |
Becoming Custodians of Planet Earth | 251 |
NOTES AND REFERENCES | 259 |
INDEX | 273 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Our Affair with El Niño: How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current ... S. George Philander Vista previa restringida - 2004 |
Our Affair with El Nino: How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current ... S. George Philander Vista previa restringida - 2006 |
Our Affair with El Nino: How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current ... S. George Philander Vista previa restringida - 2006 |