Geography 2133A/B Lecture 5: January 19th Lecture 5
10 Feb 2016
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El nino phenomenon afects paciic ocean around equator, can afect weather around world. Whats normally happening in tropical paciic trade winds, moves warm water to the west, cold water and air to the east, constant cycle. Change in winds chane the air low and water temperature patterns around world. El nino peaks around christmas time and last several months. La nina is opposite of el nino and causes opposite efects. Orgs track water temperatures in middle of ocean to predict potential el nino"s incoming. Godzilla el nino in 2016 rightnow we have huge temperature anamolys (diferences) Warmer conditions in western and eastern parts of canada london isn"t really efected by el nino. Ocean circulation patterns related to wind patterns generally synchronized. Itcz band high humidity, higher temps evaporation, high precipitarion. Present day climate (temp, precip, pressure ields, winds their spatial and temporal distributions) are a function of:
