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What is El Niño?
Click to View Larger El Niño, La Niña, and normal sea surface tempuratures


Image		   Click to View Larger Visualization of El Niño ocean surface temperature conditions

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Click to View Larger Graph showing the change in the Pacific Ocean's surface temperature over the last 50 years
Diagram		   Click to View Larger Graph and the map showing the Pacific Ocean warming and cooling in the mid 1980s

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Click to View Larger How El Niño affects the atmosphere


Diagram		   Click to View Larger David Adamec tells how satellite data help us understand El Niños

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Click to View Larger NASA scientist David Adamec



Photo		   Click to View Larger NOAA scientists deploy buoys to measure deeper ocean temperatures

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Click to View Larger Signs of the end of an El Niño



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Clues from the Past
Click to View Larger Thicker tree rings indicate an El Niño from the past


Image		   Click to View Larger Images of Cerro Cabezón prior to and during and El Niño event

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Click to View Larger Ancient hillside storehouses at Ollantay Tampo


Photo		   Click to View Larger Rhoda Island in Cairo



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Click to View Larger The Nilometer on Rhoda Island in Cairo


Illustration		   Click to View Larger Thick layer of rocks deposited during an El Niño-induced flood

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Click to View Larger Beads made by ancient Peruvians from Spondylus shells

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Click to View Larger Burial vase from the Marajoara Phase, AD 500-1000

Photo Rotation		   Click to View Larger Pottery excavated from sites in the Amazon Basin


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Long Distance Connections
Click to View Larger Typical weather changes in the United States during an El Niño and during a La Niña

Diagram		   Click to View Larger Reconstructed map showing warmer ocean surface temperatures at the beginning of the 20th century
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Click to View Larger Sir Gilbert Walker



Photo		   Click to View Larger Fires rage in Indonesia before the 1997 El Niño


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Click to View Larger Smoke from fires in Indonesia


Photo		   Click to View Larger Sea surface temperature conditions during El Niño and La Niña events

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Click to View Larger Navajo painting



Illustration		   Click to View Larger Deer mouse



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Image		   Click to View Larger Locust swarm



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Click to View Larger Video showing how El Niño and La Niña impact hurricanes


Animation		   Click to View Larger World locations of coral reefs



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Click to View Larger Bleached coral



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Click to View Larger Fish-eating birds and sea mammals during an El Niño


Diagram		   Click to View Larger Carole Baldwin exploring the Galápagos


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Photo		   Click to View Larger Ground finch



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Click to View Larger Workers in the 1860s excavate a "mountain" of guano

Photo		   Click to View Larger 2000-year old ceramic pot depicting rocks covered by guano

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Photo		   Click to View Larger A male great frigate sitting next to the bones of a frigate that died during an El Niño

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Click to View Larger Terry Erwin and his team collect insects


Photo		   Click to View Larger Rainforest beetle



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Long Distance Connections
Click to View Larger Current sea surface temperatures of the Pacific Ocean

Image		   Click to View Larger Sea surface temperatures of the Pacific Ocean during an El Niño and La Niña event

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