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El Niño’s Shifting Winds
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El Niño’s Shifting Winds

A NASA scatterometer observes how winds shifted over the Pacific Ocean during one of the strongest El Niños on record.

Published Mar 3, 2016

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A Rare Cyclone on the Equator
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A Rare Cyclone on the Equator

Storms like Typhoon Vamei are not supposed to happen.

Published May 9, 2003

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Tehuano Winds
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Tehuano Winds

Unusually strong winds pushed through Mexico’s Chivela Pass and carried dust over the Gulf of Tehuantepec.

Published Apr 13, 2014

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Adios El Nino, Hello La Nina?
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Adios El Nino, Hello La Nina?

A strip of cold water hugging the equator in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean in mid-June may foreshadow a transition from El Niño to La Niña conditions

Published Jun 24, 2010

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Storms in the Java Sea
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Storms in the Java Sea

Published Jan 10, 2007

Severe Storms

La Nina Greenup Patterns
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La Nina Greenup Patterns

La Niña’s fingerprint is all over plants in eastern Australia and southern Africa in this pair of vegetation images from the SPOT satellite.

Published Mar 15, 2008

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Under the Surface of El Niño
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Under the Surface of El Niño

With its own forms of underwater weather, the ocean has fronts and circulation patterns that move heat and nutrients around its basins. Changes near the surface often start with changes in the depths.

Published Mar 21, 2017

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Fires in Southern California
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Fires in Southern California

Published Oct 24, 2007

Fires

QuikSCAT Launches
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QuikSCAT Launches

Published Jul 1, 1999

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