COSEE Ocean Systems: News
La Niña's Exit Leaves Climate Forecasts in Limbo
Description: The comings and goings of El Niño and La Niña are part of a long-term, evolving state of global climate, for which measurements of sea surface height are a key indicator. There is a puzzling period between cycles of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation climate pattern in the Pacific Ocean when sea surface heights in the equatorial Pacific are near average. It's what Bill Patzert, a climatologist and oceanographer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., likes to call a "La Nada." [Source: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory]
URL: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-199
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Source: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Publish Date: 6/29/2011
Reading Level: Basic
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