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El Niño/Southern Oscillation Education Resources
Listed in increasing technical order.
- El Niño page for students from NOAA's OAR
- Globe El Niño and La Niña Experiment
Students use real-time data to observe ENSO and it's effects. Users can plot predictions of the atmosphere and compare them to observations among many other features.
- Dial-a-Scientist Studying El Niño (from the U.S.Dept of Commerce/NOAA/PMEL/TAO Project Office).
- USA
Today El Niño Information Page
Answers to many questions about El Niño and a collection of old news stories.
- History of the Southern Oscillation Index
- El Niño
Teaching Module from University of Illinois
A very well-done, comprehensive tutorial on ENSO, related ocean/atmosphere climate processes, and the impact of ENSO. Suitable for high school, college and teachers.
- El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Educational
Module from Universities Space Research Program (USRA).
One of many teaching modules on Earth sciences by the NASA/USRA Cooperative University-Based Program in Earth System Science Education (ESSE).
- Understanding ENSO from IRI.
A nice review of the history of the understanding of ENSO
- Climate Prediction Center (CPC) ENSO Tutorial
- Using the PSD Interactive
Electronic Atlas to learn about El Niño
Suggestions for using an interactive climate atlas to teach about ENSO
- A Colloquium at NCAR on the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
- Understanding and predicting ENSO (from University of Washington College Course -- technical)
The Colloquium consisted of presentations and roundtable discussions by scientists involved in ENSO-related research. It presented the current understanding of the causes, effects, and consequences of ENSO as well as ENSO's role in the global climate system.