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El Nino |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / AT THE EDGE |
| Author: Michael H. Glantz |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 2,499 Words, 15,111 Characters |
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In the past few years newspaper headlines have been filed with stories about "severe," "bizarre," "crazy," "extreme," and "anomalous" weather patterns that have disrupted human activities in many parts of the world and caused devastation to life and property on a local, national, and regional scale. Much of this unusual weather--and even a minute slowing of the earth's rotation--has been blamed on an oceanic-atmospheric phenomenon known as El Nino.
El Nino can be defined as an invasion of warm surface water from the western part of the equatorial Pacific into the normally cooler waters of the eastern part of the Pacific Basin off the western coast of South America-mainly Peru and Ecuador.
The warm water heats the air above it, and if the right conditions exist, the water vapor c...
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...became one of the top fishing nations in the world.
Thus, it is important to research all aspects of El Nino to determine its benefits to society as well as its costs. It is also important for the welfare of countries around the world that the scientific community sustain its growing interest in this atmospheric oceanic phenomenon, the origins and impacts of which still remain a mystery.
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