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SCIENCE - El Niño/La Niña & PDO - Learn More About it

El Niño/La Niña Information on the Web

There are many excellent sites containing basic information on these phenomena, the effects of El Niño and La Niña on weather and climate, and forecasts.

Major sites containing background information

• An El Niño and La Niña Theme Page - a comprehensive primer with access to relevant data, information on effects, and predictions. If you are just going to visit one site, this is probably the one!

• El Niño and La Niña resources on the internet - a major site with links to all major sites from the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies Library El Niño Resources

• NOAA El Niño and La Niña pages - a major site with forecasts, observations, research, background

• The ENSO cycle - processes and displays of relevant data

• El Niño 1997 - information from altimeter data with links to principal sites
  http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/el_nino/

• ENSO Primer - a basic primer on El Niño

• Earth Space Research Group: El Niño Scenario - basic information about the mechanisms behind El Niño