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La Niña's Persistence May Be Part Of Larger Climate Pattern
January 20, 2000 A giant horseshoe pattern of higher than normal sea-surface heights developing over the last year is beginning to dominate the entire western Pacific and Asiatic oceans, new imagery from the ... > full story -
Researchers Create First Global Long-Term Precipitation Data Set For Understanding El Niño/La Niña
January 11, 2000 NASA scientists have completed the first globally complete long-term data set for use in understanding El Niño/La Niña events. The data set, part of the Global Precipitation Climatology ... > full story -
Reversible Bone Shrinkage Documented In Galapagos Iguanas
January 10, 2000 Measurements showing vertebrate animals getting smaller during the course of a study normally are dismissed as measurement error or not possible. Eighteen years of data from the Galapagos Islands, ... > full story -
New USGS Research On Historic Streamflows Maps La Niña's Impacts
January 7, 2000 This year's La Niña spring could bring increased streamflows to the Pacific Northwest and Appalachia, but lower streamflows in the Southwest, in parts of the Northeast and center of the ... > full story -
Evidence Mounts For Arctic Oscillation's Impact On Northern Climate
December 20, 1999 A growing body of evidence indicates that a climate phenomenon called the Arctic Oscillation has wide-ranging effects in the Northern Hemisphere and operates differently from other known climate ... > full story -
News From NCAR: Cool Climate, Hot Solar Research
December 15, 1999 This tip sheet highlights breakthroughs in understanding the cooling effect of agriculture, the link between El Ninos and volcanoes, and the length and strength of solar cycles. Presentations of ... > full story -
El Niño's Dramatic Impact On Ocean Biology And Carbon Dioxide Captured By Unique Monitoring System
December 10, 1999 The 1997-98 El Niño/La Niña had an unprecedented roller-coaster effect on the oceanic food chain across a vast swath of the Pacific, plunging chlorophyll levels to the lowest ever ... > full story -
El Nino Triggers Tropical Forest Reproduction
December 9, 1999 On the island of Borneo, the world's second largest tropical rain forest is dying. Its death will mean the disappearance of a unique ecosystem where trees time their reproduction to the periodic ... > full story -
Mild La Nina Conditions Developing, Satellite Data Show
December 3, 1999 Unusually warm ocean temperatures off Asia and cool waters in the eastern and equatorial Pacific are signaling La Nina's mild return, according to the latest sea-surface heights observed by the ... > full story -
New Books View Storms, The Stratosphere, And More
November 19, 1999 A global perspective on storms, a glimpse into creeping degradation of the Aral Sea, and a portrait of the stratosphere await readers of recent books by National Center for Atmospheric Research ... > full story
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