The shift in rainfall away from the western Pacific, associated with El Niño, means that Australian rainfall is usually reduced through winter–spring, particularly across the eastern and northern ...
Sea surface temperature anomalies on the tropical Pacific Ocean ... during May, the WMO said. The latest seasonal forecasts indicate that tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures are likely to cool ...
A new study reveals a 30-year acceleration of equatorial Pacific currents, driven by stronger winds, with implications for global climate and El Niño patterns. The findings, based on NOAA-supported ...
El Niño has important effects on the world’s economies—and not all of them are bad The current El Niño (Spanish for “The Boy”)—a band of above-average ocean surface temperatures that develops every 3 ...
In 1905, a Swedish oceanographer named Vagn Walfrid Ekman found evidence showing that ocean currents that flow near the surface, which were known to be impacted by wind, were found to deflect to ...
NOAA’s latest study identifies atypical leftward ocean currents in the Bay of Bengal, challenging existing oceanography models. Credit: SciTechDaily.com New research led by NOAA’s Pacific Marine ...