El Niño may make 2014 the hottest year yet

• Autores: Michael Slezak
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2956, 2014, pág. 11
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Now a model aims to predict El Nino by examining a previously unexplored feature of Pacific weather. Armin Bunde of Justus Liebig University in Giessen Germany, and his colleagues looked at the link between air temperature over the equator and in the rest of the Pacific. Records showed that, in the year before each El Nino, the two regions became more closely linked, so their temperatures became more similar than at other times. Bunde found that if these links reached a critical strength, around 75% of the time an El Nino formed within a year.