Sentences with phrase «ninos occurred»
All I know is many decades ago I learned el ninos occurred roughly every 7 years.
http://www.realclimate.org/ Not exact matches
Regardless, on said chart, the spike that occurred in 1998 happened very very quickly, so yes, with an el nino event, the difference could easily be made up in a few months.
One thing I am pretty sure about is that the tendency for el nino to occur near solar minimum and la nina to occur near solar maximum, and the capability of the ocean to store solar radiation on decadal timescales has led to an underestimation of the solar forcing.
Large El ninos tend to occur at solar minimum, under a decrease in solar forcing.Both poles had large polar vortex operating due to decreases in O3., with the winter night jets acting as transport barriers.