{"id":26453,"date":"2024-04-14T14:49:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T12:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=26453"},"modified":"2024-04-14T14:49:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T12:49:44","slug":"what-is-el-nino-and-la-nina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/04\/14\/what-is-el-nino-and-la-nina\/","title":{"rendered":"What is El Ni\u00f1o and La Ni\u00f1a?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <strong>El Ni\u00f1o<\/strong> In the generally cooler eastern Pacific Ocean along the equator, sea surface temperatures are rising by more than 3\u00b0C above the long-term average. This causes above-normal rainfall, which also reaches the west coast of South America, where it often causes catastrophic flooding. In contrast, droughts often occur in Australia, the western Pacific and India. The drop in air pressure in the eastern Pacific causes the trade winds to weaken, so that surface ocean currents and the movement of nutrient-rich water from the depths to the surface (so-called upwelling) weaken off the west coast of South America. This leads to fish kills here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>La Nina<\/strong> is, on the contrary, manifested by warmer sea water along the equator compared to normal by up to more than 3 \u00b0C. It causes increased precipitation in the western Pacific, and conversely drought in its central part. The increase in air pressure in the eastern Pacific causes the strengthening of the trade winds, so that the surface ocean currents and the upwelling of deep water off the western coast of South America are strengthened. The designation La Ni\u00f1a (little girl) arose as a contrast to the naming of the earlier known, opposite phase El Ni\u00f1o (little boy, baby Jesus). (CO2AI)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During El Ni\u00f1o, the generally cooler eastern Pacific Ocean along the equator experiences sea surface temperatures that are up to 3\u00b0C above the long-term average. This causes above-normal rainfall, which also reaches the west coast of South America, where it often causes catastrophic flooding. In contrast, droughts often occur in Australia, the western Pacific, and India. [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}