COSEE Ocean Systems: News
United States El Niño Impacts
Description: By this point, most of you have heard that it looks like El Niño is coming, and maybe you're wondering why you should care. After all, why should it matter if the tropical Pacific Ocean becomes warmer than average? That's thousands of miles away from the continental United States. Well, it turns out that El Niño often results in changes in the patterns of precipitation and temperature across many parts of the globe, including North America (Ropelewski and Halpert 1987, Halpert and Ropelewski 1992). [Source: NOAA Climate.gov]
URL: http://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/enso/united-states-el-ni%C3%B1o-impacts-0
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Source: NOAA Climate.gov
Publish Date: 6/12/2014
Reading Level: Basic
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