Sentences with phrase «westerly wind burst in»

During the typical El Niño, the warm phase of that oscillation, the trade winds weaken, and episodic westerly wind bursts in the western equatorial Pacific generate internal waves into the ocean.

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After westerly wind bursts occurred in the spring of 2015, this extra warm water acted to give a head start to the developing El Niño and contributed to the strength of the 2015 - 16 El Niño event.

New research shows how easterly winds in the summer of 2014 caused the anomalously warm subsurface water of the tropical Pacific — which presages an El Niño event and formed following the early 2014 westerly wind burst — to never discharge poleward, thereby remaining in the tropical Pacific and giving a head start to the developing 2015 - 16 El Niño.

But then, in the spring of 2015, episodes of very strong westerly wind bursts occurred and became more frequent throughout the summer.

But by early summer, the westerly wind bursts stopped rather abruptly, prematurely shutting down the complex chain of self - reinforcing feedbacks that need to be in place for an El Niño event to develop and fully mature.