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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... winds precedes the appearance of El Niño . Today many believe that the " triggers " are bursts of westerly winds along the equator in the vicinity of the date line ; critical subsequent developments include oceanic Kelvin waves that ...
... wind returneth again according to his circuits . All the rivers run into the sea ; yet the sea is not full ; unto the ... westerly winds contributed to the development of El Niño lends credence to the idea that El Niño has a definite ...
... wind bursts on other occasions have failed to produce El Niño . Appar- ently only bursts that appear at the " right ... westerly winds came along , causing a significant amplification and acceler- ation of developments . The absence of ...
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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 |