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Consider coordinating with ENVO on a definition for El Niño #49

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dillerm opened this issue Aug 26, 2016 · 0 comments
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Consider coordinating with ENVO on a definition for El Niño #49

dillerm opened this issue Aug 26, 2016 · 0 comments

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dillerm commented Aug 26, 2016

Information I've gathered on El Niño:

  • Warm phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which is a single "periodic variation in winds and sea surface temperatures over the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean, affecting much of the tropics and subtropics," according to Wikipedia.
  • ENSO is almost certainly an individual process, based on what I've gathered from my preliminary research, that consists of three subprocesses: 1) La Niña, 2) El Niño, and 3) a neutral phase that marks the transitions between 1) and 2), in which sea temperatures, tropical precipitation, and wind patterns approach their long-term averages.
  • In addition, my initial guess is that ENSO is an instance of 'environmental system process'
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