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What Is El Niño?
- "El Niño is an oscillation of the ocean-atmosphere system in the tropical Pacific having important consequences for weather around the globe... During El Niño, the trade winds relax in the central and western Pacific leading to a depression of the thermocline in the eastern Pacific, and an elevation of the thermocline in the west." - excerpt from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) web page.
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