El Niño and La Niña Explained to Kids
2023年8月22日 · While El Niño brings warmer ocean temperatures, its counterpart, known as La Niña, occurs when the eastern Pacific becomes cooler than usual. La Niña has its own distinct impacts on weather patterns, often causing opposite effects to El Niño.
What Is El Niño? | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids
2019年6月27日 · El Niño is a weather pattern. In El Niño years, ocean waters along South America and California warm above normal temperatures. Many rain clouds form over this warm part of the ocean and move inland, dumping more rain than usual in South and Central America and in the United States.
El Niño quiets monster storms | NASA Climate Kids
2024年11月11日 · El Niño quiets monster storms. The hurricane season of 2009 (June 1 through November 30) was quieter than normal. Scientists think El Niño was responsible. What is El Niño? El Niño is a condition that sometimes occurs in the Pacific Ocean, but it is so big that it affects weather all over the world. Weather depends a lot on ocean temperatures.
How El Niño works and how it got its Christmas-inspired name | CBC Kids ...
2023年11月29日 · El Niño is here! Learn all about the climate pattern and how it affects weather globally in this animated video explainer, hosted by CBC Kids News contributo...
El Niño - National Geographic Society
2024年12月9日 · Scientists use the Oceanic Nino Index (ONI) to measure deviations from normal sea-surface temperatures. El Niño events are indicated by sea surface temperature increases of more than 0.9° Fahrenheit for at least five successive three-month seasons.
What You Need to Know about El Niño - National Geographic Education Blog
2015年10月26日 · El Niño is a climate pattern that describes the unusual warming of surface waters of the tropical eastern Pacific. “ During an El Niño event, sea surface temperatures across a watery expanse often as large as the United States can warm by 1–3° Fahrenheit or more for a period of from a few months to a year or two.”
El Niño - Students | Britannica Kids | Homework Help
To the 19th-century fishermen who coined the term, El Niño was a warm Pacific Ocean current that affected their catch off the coast of Peru. They named the current El Niño, Spanish for “the Christ child,” because it usually arrived around Christmas.
El Niño and La Niña Worksheets | Definition, Clauses, Impact
2023年10月11日 · EL NIÑO – DEFINITION AND CAUSES. El Niño is a climate phenomenon defined by the recurrent warming of the equatorial Pacific Ocean’s central and eastern sea surface temperatures. It affects the patterns of the world’s weather and happens sporadically every two to seven years.
El Niño–Southern Oscillation facts for kids - Kids encyclopedia
2023年10月16日 · El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO in short) is a term for a natural event that takes place in the Pacific Ocean. It is also called El Niño and La Niña. In Spanish they mean "little boy" and "little girl". El Niño happens when the sea water temperature rises in surface waters of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Every two to five years the ...
What Is El Niño? - Wonderopolis
El Niño is a Pacific Ocean climate cycle that's one of the phases of what's known as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle. The ENSO cycle involves temperature fluctuations between the ocean and the atmosphere in the eastern Pacific Ocean near the equator.
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