El Nino

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.

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

• Warm temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific

Consequences

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

• drought in the West Pacific

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.

Collecting data

Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO)

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