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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... surface tem- perature fluctuations in the eastern tropical Pacific over the past century . ( The occasional warming of the surface waters in that region amounts to El Niño's signature . ) Figure 1.1 calls into ques- tion the earlier ...
... surface are downright plain ; uniformly warm surface waters are exactly what we expect in the tropics where sunshine is most intense . La Niña , by contrast , is intriguing and myste- rious : she remains admirably cool under intense ...
... surface temperatures associated with La Niña also describes the rainfall and cloud distribution associ- ated with that phenomenon . For example , the dreary doldrums coincide with the swath of warm water that stretches clear across the ...
... water is exposed to the surface during La Niña . East Changes in the winds change the slope of the thermocline and thus alter surface temperature patterns in the tropics . This is a tantalizing result because the converse is also true ...
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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 |
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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 |