Instructions

You have an assignment about El Nino. Some questions can be answered during this presentation, others you will have to do research on yourself using the provided website.

What is El Niño?

• an oscillation of the ocean-atmosphere system in the tropical Pacific

• Warm temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific

What is El Niño?

Consequences

• increased rainfall across the southern tier of the US and in Peru,

• drought in the West Pacific

What is El Niño?

Collecting data

• NOAA operates a network of buoys which measure temperature, currents and winds in the equatorial band.

• These transmit data which are available to researchers and forecasters around the world in real time.

What is El Niño?

Collecting data

Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO)

The TAO/TRITON Array was designed to better understand and predict climate variations related to El Niño