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El Niño Theme Page: Equatorial Pacific Ocean profiles
Equatorial Pacific Ocean profiles Home SST and water temperature profile, Equatorial Pacific Ocean, January 1997 SST and water temperature profile, Equatorial Pacific Ocean, November 1997 SST and water temperature profile, Equatorial Pacific Ocean, March 1998 Images ... map shows a sea level rise along the Equator in the eastern Pacific Ocean of up to 34 centimeters with the red colors indicating an ...
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CRU Information Sheet no. 2: The Causes of Climatic Change
La Niña phase) of the waters of the central and eastern Pacific. The temperature change is strongest in a zone ten degrees latitude either side of the ... eastern and western Pacific, accompanied by a change in the strength of the winds over the equatorial Pacific Ocean. During a warm ENSO event, sea-level pressure drops in the eastern Pacific and rises in ...
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Climate Change
Pacific Ocean – and global warming. Scientists are concerned that the accumulation of greenhouse gases could inject enough heat into Pacific waters such that El Niño ... on record. The snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere and floating ice in the Arctic Ocean have decreased. Globally, sea level has risen 4-8 inches over the past century. Worldwide ...
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Global Climate Change: Research Explorer - Sea Surface Temperatures
During an El Niño event, slackening trade winds result in unusually warm sea surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific. These warm ... temperature (SST) measurements taken over the last few decades in a zone of the equatorial Pacific Ocean. The vertical scale on the right shows the temperature anomaly — the difference between the ...
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El Niño: Research, Forecasts and Observations
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration El Niño is a disruption of the ocean-atmosphere system in the Tropical Pacific having important consequences for weather and climate around the globe. Today' ... La Niña La Niña is associated with cooler than normal water temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean. Links on this page will have detailed information on processes involved in, and the ...
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Ocean Alliance - VOYAGE OF THE ODYSSEY - Indian Ocean Logs
Odyssey Logs - Mediterranean Sea - Mauritius - Sri Lanka - Maldives - The Seychelles - Indian Ocean - Australia - Papua New Guinea - Kiribati - Pacific Passage - Galapagos Islands > Current Location > Odyssey Video > Science from the Field > ... 2003 'Whales and the Food Chain' "From the clear waters of the equatorial Indian Ocean to the cold, turbid waters of the Northern Atlantic, I have had the ...
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Ocean Alliance - VOYAGE OF THE ODYSSEY
Coral Sea and Torres Strait lie ahead, beyond it, our next destination, Darwin, Australia. So after 17 months of research in the Pacific Ocean we say goodbye to both it and Papua New Guinea, while looking forward to new challenges and more whales in the Indian Ocean ...
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Biological Ocean Group: Home
Equatorial Pacific TAO Moorings MOOS Mooring NOAA Long Line Cruises, 1992-1996 NOPP OSCOPE Peru Ocean Temperatures Satellite Information Site Map Data Biological Ocean Group Our group studies the biogeochemical response to climate and ocean ...
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Ocean Geography | Geography of the sea floor
Coral reefs are usually found in warmer, tropical seas surrounding the equatorial belt. Typically, corals will invade the seas around a sheltered volcanic island, taking root on ... Trench, in the North Pacific Ocean, and the deepest, most famous one in the world, the Marianas Trench, off the coast of the Marianas Islands in the Southeast Pacific. These are all places ...
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Pacific Ocean Geography 2000 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System
Peru, when the trade winds slacken and the warm Equatorial countercurrent moves south, killing the plankton that is the primary food source for anchovies ... Strait; the Equator divides the Pacific Ocean into the North Pacific Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean; dotted with low coral islands and rugged volcanic islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean Villas - Flores Sea Information ...
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