The El Nino phenomenon that has puzzled climate scientists in recent decades may have assisted the first trip around the world nearly 500 years ago.
... warming in the tropical Pacific Ocean, suggesting the potential for the development of the El Nino climate phenomenon this summer, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
US scientists on Thursday said that the El Nino warming trend of the Pacific Ocean waters has returned, bringing with it almost certain changes in weather patterns around the world.
... triggered by the solar maximum tends to evolve into an El Nino-like pattern, as slow-moving ... produced by the solar maximum, the authors found that its switch to an El Nino-like state is likely triggered ...
A Baylor University study has found the weather patterns of El Nino and La Nina, which brings drier and wetter conditions to certain parts of the country, happened thousands of years ...
The warm tropical Pacific water brought on by El Nino, which began again in mid-2009, greatly affects global patterns of temperature and precipitation.
A weak El Nino is under way and it is expected to strengthen and last through winter, government climate researchers said Thursday.
... El Nino and a severe flu pandemic 91 years ago. The findings are based on analysis of the 1918 El Nino, which the new research shows to be one of the strongest of the 20th ...
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say they've linked the 1918-1919 El Nino with the high mortality of the influenza pandemic of 1918.
El Nino, the periodic eastern Pacific phenomenon credited with shielding the United States and Caribbean from severe hurricane seasons, may be overshadowed by its brother in the central Pacific due to ...
Scientists agree El Nino is back. But not all El Ninos are created equal, and there's less consensus about the future strength of this year's event.
The Pacific's El Nino ocean-warming phenomenon has resulted in an especially calm Atlantic hurricane season -- a welcome respite for Caribbean and southeastern US residents still ...
Scientists agree El Nino is back. But not all El Ninos are created equal, and there's less consensus about the future strength of this year's event.
The latest image from the U.S./French Jason-2 satellite finds a strong wave of warm water heading toward the Americas, fueling El Nino.
(PhysOrg.com) -- El Nino, a warming event of the tropical Pacific Ocean that affects weather patterns in the United States and elsewhere, has strengthened in recent months and ...
