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| Two Views of recent El Nino/La Nina History |
This series is about some of the "mystery" in current hypotheses concerning the activities that have been called El Nino and La Nina.
Today we take a look at the El Nino / La Nina area using Pelagic depths.
Pelagic depths are each represented by a single line (see graphs below) composed of the averages of the multiple lines in the 33-lines version shown in a previous post of this series.
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| An Active Area of El Nino / La Nina Events |
The graphs below have lines that are built from the averaging of data which was used to make graphs shown in previous posts.
The averages are constructed by adding up the values in all the lines of a single color, then writing just one line which is constructed from the average of those multiple lines.
Perhaps this will be helpful in deciphering just what El Nino and La Nina are actually about in terms of "ocean heat".
It doesn't appear to be clear how ocean surface winds can make vast ocean heat flux take place:
(The El Nino/La Nina Chronicles, quoting "The Mystery of El Niño"). So, let's take another look at the ocean heat flux:'When the Pacific Ocean sloshed warm water back toward Peru in the 1500s, the country’s fisheries collapsed around Christmas time. A name was born: 'El Niño: The Christmas Child.'
'It’s the little child of Christ who is causing problems,' said UC Davis Atmospheric Science Professor Ian Faloona.
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'The Chimú people of Peru believed that El Niño was caused by angry sea gods. Today, El Niño is still mystifying. 'Every 2-7 years, the winds seem to just weaken in the summertime,' said Faloona. 'I think it’s very mysterious how it evolves.' "
Pelagic Depths
(Previous 33 line (non-Pelagic)
graphs are here).
The following line colors
indicate the depths:
Sea level to 200m (red) Epipelagic
201m to 1000m (green) Mesopelagic
1001m to 4000m (brown) Bathypelagic
4001m to 5500m (orchid) Abyssopelagic
5501 to bottom (blue) Hadopelagic
