Modeling experiments show weather-changing El Niño oscillation is at least 250 million years old
The El Niño event, a huge blob of warm ocean water in the tropical Pacific Ocean that can change rainfall patterns around the globe, isn't just a modern phenomenon.
Weather-Changing El Niño Oscillation Is at Least 250 Million Years Old
A new modeling study from a pair of Duke University researchers and their colleagues shows that the oscillation between El Niño and its cold counterpart, La Niña, was present at least 250 million years in the past, and was often of greater magnitude than the oscillations we see today.
El Niño and La Niña May Have Affected Weather For At Least 250 Million Years
New modeling research has shown that the natural global climate phenomena known as El Niño and its cold counterpart, La Niña, have been occurring for the last 250 million years. Although these complex weather patterns are the drivers of extreme weather changes today,
Weather-changing El Nino oscillation is at least 250 million years old
A new modeling study shows that the El Nino event, a huge blob of warm ocean water in the tropical Pacific Ocean that can change rainfall patterns around the globe, was present at least 250 million years in the past,
250 million-year-old El Niño was more intense than modern events, finds study
El Niño, the climate phenomenon associated with a massive warm water patch in the Pacific Ocean that disrupts global weather patterns, isn’t a purely modern occurrence. A new study led by Duke University researchers reveals that this oscillation,
Ancient El Niño? Mysterious climate cycle blamed for millennia of chaotic weather.
El Niño is a natural climate pattern where surface sea water temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean ...
Duke Scientists Uncover Stronger, Ancient Versions of El Niño and La Niña
Modeling experiments reveal that warm and cold patches in the Pacific persisted, regardless of the shifting positions of ...
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Ancient El Niños were twice as strong! 250M years of Earth’s climate swings mapped
Long before humans walked the Earth, when dinosaurs roamed supercontinent Pangea and greenhouse gas levels soared far beyond ...
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Scientists see echoes of ancient warming world in El Niño
Duke University researchers and collaborating scientists took a peek into the last 250 million years to understand the causes ...
Southern Africa is enduring its worst hunger crisis in decades due to El Niño, the UN says
The United Nations' food agency says months of drought in southern Africa triggered by the El Niño weather phenomenon have ...
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New research suggests how El Niño caused the greatest mass extinction in history — and how it affects weather patterns today
"Only species that could migrate quickly could survive, and there weren't many plants or animals that could do that." ...
What is the difference between El Niño and La Niña climate phenomena?
The differences between the two common weather systems create the conditions that cause the disastrous hurricanes that have ...
What's the difference between an El Nino and a La Nina winter?
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