1) Cause of a wet spell 2) Cause of weird weather 3) Climate 4) Meteorological phenomenon 5) Pacific weather pattern 6) Pacific weather phenomenon 7) Weather influencer
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La Niña (ə, la ˈniɲa) is a coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon that is the counterpart of El Niño as part of the broader El Niño–Southern Oscillation climate pattern. The name La Niña originates from Spanish, meaning `the girl`, analogous to El Niño meaning `the boy`. It has also in the past been called anti-El Niño, and El Viejo (m...
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(from the article `atmosphere`) ...from the Equator such that the deeper, colder waters move to the surface. In the central and eastern Pacific Ocean near the Equator, when this ... ...negative phases are related to El Niño episodes in the South Pacific, and most of Australia`s major droughts have been related to these episodes. ...
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A cooling of the equatorial waters in the Pacific Ocean.
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A cooling of the eastern Pacific-opposite to El Nino.
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Condition opposite of an El Nino. In a La Nina, the tropical Pacific trade winds become very strong and an abnormal accumulation of cold water occurs in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean.
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a condition involving an excessive pooling of cool water which occurs in the equatorial Eastern Pacific Ocean. See El Niño.
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La Niña, a phase of ENSO, is a periodic cooling of surface ocean waters in the eastern tropical Pacific along with a shift in convection in the western Pacific further west than the climatological average. These conditions affect weather patterns around the world. The preliminary CPC definition of La Niña is a phenomenon in the equatorial Pacific...
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the cold phase of ENSO leading to extensive cooling of the central and eastern Pacific.
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