What
The opposite of El Nino.
What is La Nina?
True or False: El Nino has a 50/50 chance of occurring later this year.
What is false?
El Nino has a 90%-95% probability of occurring later this year.
The ocean that El Nino occurs in.
What is the Pacific ocean?
The abbreviation for the temperature of the surface of the ocean.
What is SST?
This climate zone experiences very low amounts of precipitation.
What is Dry climate?
True or False: El Nino is a large storm system.
What is False?
The frequency that El Nino occurs
What is every 2 to 7 years?
The direction that warmer water moves across the pacific during El Nino.
What is West to East, or from Asia to South America?
The length of time that SST needs to remain elevated to trigger El Nino's arrival.
What is 3 months?
This climate zone never experiences an average monthly temperature higher than 50 degrees F.
What is Polar climate?
True or False: El Nino is a climate pattern.
What is true?
The length of time that El Nino lasts.
What is 9 months to 1 year?
How El Nino affects southeast Asia and Australia.
What is warmer and drier?
The amount that SST along the equator needs to warm to trigger El Nino's occurrence.
What is .5 degrees C or .9 degrees F?
This climate zone experiences greater than 59 inches of rain annually.
What is tropical climate?
How El Nino affects hurricanes in the Caribbean/Gulf of Mexico.
What is weakening?
The season that experiences the strongest effects from El Nino.
What is winter?
How El Nino affects the southern part of the U.S.
What is wetter weather?
The change that has to occur in the atmosphere for El Nino to occur.
What is the weakening or reversal of tropical trade winds.
This climate zone experiences rapid changes in weather and is found in high mountain ranges.
What is Highland climate?
The origin of the name "El Nino"
What is it's discovery by South American fisherman around Christmas time?
The strongest El Nino on record.
What is 1997-1998?
How El Nino affects the northern part of the U.S.
What is warmer and drier weather?
The _____ Array is a collection of 70 buoys across the pacific ocean that provide data to predict El Nino.
What is the TAO array?
This climate zone is found further inland and experiences mild summers and cold winters.
What is moist continental mid-latitude climate?