El Nino exerts powerful control on Earth's climate ... trade winds along the equator, and (2) a shallow thermocline in the east (the thermocline is the sharp thermal boundary separating warm ...

Over millennia, the tropical Pacific's thermocline has become shallower and more stratified, enabling more efficient interaction between the atmosphere and ocean that allow El Niño and La Niña ...

A sharp temperature and density change—called the thermocline—floats about 100 ... like driftwood blown into a harbor. The birth of El Nino. This animation shows anomalies, or departures ...

El Niño has important effects on the world’s economies ... to accumulate warm ocean water along the coastline of Peru. This phenomenon causes the thermocline—a transition layer between warmer mixed ...

Now, neither La Niña nor its counterpart El Niño are present and a so-called neutral phase has begun, according to a new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report. This neutral ...