ATOC 184 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Northwest Passage, Nios Embedded Processor
16 Sep 2016
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El ni o: pool of abnormally warm water at the surface of the water. Water surrounding north america is warm and this has impacts on weather. El ni o is causing california to be wet for the first time in years. It impacts the weather around the world. Water temperature"s over the central tropical pacific has an effect for continents all over the world. December in 2015 in montreal: warm this is partially due to el ni o. World as a whole is hotter than normal. Over the northern hemisphere the temperatures were above normal. Exceptions: parts of northeastern canada, greenland and north atlantic. Saw temperatures near or below normal for the year. Basically everyone else saw was above normal. The arctic is warming up faster than everything else is. This does not mean we cannot have snow storms. We had the largest snowfalls on record in january and february for the northeast.
