Sentences with phrase «westerly wind bursts»

Following a large westerly wind burst in February 2014, buzz developed that a strong El Niño event would occur in the following winter.

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.

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

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.

The system is «charged up», and El Niño events are then initiated by a «kick» (eg the Madden - Julian Oscillation or westerly wind bursts).

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.

Specifically, the winds 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.

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.

These westerly wind bursts sometimes generate long waves called Kelvin waves, which travel east along the equator at about 2.5 meters per second.