måndag 28 november 2011

The Pacific Ocean, a climate factory

All three oceans, Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Ocean do all impact on the climate regionally, but I wonder if there are any other ocean than the Pacific which is shown to also have a global impact on our climate!?

In every newspaper with any self esteem, we read in the days of). The former has in all cases I have known for a long time, but La Niña is for me a new acquaintance.

I intend to devote the next posts to write a little about water and air flows mainly in the Pacific Ocean. Because it fascinated me so much to dig into those issues and I hope it will interest others as well. A lot is perhaps remnants for most, but I write about it anyway!

To begin with, this primarily concerns the area around the equator and southwards. We will familiarize ourselves with the concepts of the two children El Niño (man child) and La Niña (girl), the Humbolt current, Equatorial Currents, Walker Circulation, Madden-Julian Oscillation, etc., etc..