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Tag: el nino

How Extreme Wildfires Made the COVID Pandemic Deadlier
Human Health

How Extreme Wildfires Made the COVID Pandemic Deadlier

Wildfires in California have been causing COVID-19 cases and deaths to skyrocket, and El Niño may be playing a role.
June 12, 2021June 11, 2021 Ashley Marranzino
The Blob: A movie monster of the sea
Climate Change

The Blob: A movie monster of the sea

The Blob, the Pacific marine heatwave from 2016, sounds more like a movie monster than a natural phenomenon. Still the…
May 15, 2020May 15, 2020 Kristin Huizenga
Atmospheric Science Human impacts Physical oceanography

Get ready for some “extremely” wet and warm days! (Maybe)

Recently, a lot of research has been focused on predicting average winter temperature and rainfall in the U.S. during El…
November 7, 2015November 10, 2015 Nicole Couto
Hazards Modeling

Hail and Tornadoes? Blame ENSO

El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) can change winter weather on the western coasts of South and North America. Its arm of…
April 24, 2015May 5, 2015 Zoe Gentes
Coastal Management Ecology Policy

Local natural resource management can combat the effects of global environmental disturbances

Global environmental problems can't be solved overnight by one person, but there are things we can do locally to positively…
December 29, 2014December 29, 2014 Virginia Schutte
Climate Change

How Does Pacific Island Climate Change Under Various El-Niño

El Niño impacts vary among different geographic regions and El Niño types. A single El Niño event may bring drought…
December 17, 2014December 17, 2014 Caoxin Sun
Biology Climate Change

Reconstructing Regional Climate and Oceanographic Processes From Tree Rings

Researchers are using centuries of tree growth data to understand variability in upwelling, productivity and marine ecosystem health in the…
October 6, 2014 Brian Caccioppoli
Climate Change

Global Warming Hiatus? Blame the Atlantic!

From the early 1990s on, the Earth has been experiencing a global warming hiatus, where the post-industrial warming trend has…
August 12, 2014August 12, 2014 Brian Caccioppoli
Climate Change Paleoceanography

Just How Permanent was El Niño in the Past?

New data refutes the hypothesis that permanent El Niño conditions existed in the tropical Pacific more than 3 million years…
May 16, 2014 Brian Caccioppoli

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