NOUN
- (oceanography) a warm ocean current that flows along the equator from the date line and south off the coast of Ecuador at Christmas time
- the Christ child
How To Use El Nino In A Sentence
- Prior to the start of TOGA, the most well-studied societal impact of El Niño was the collapse of the Peruvian anchoveta fishery in 1972-1973.
- Calvin, a geographer specializing in Latin America, focuses on the El Nino / Southern Oscillation, its teleconnections, and their impacts.
- People are concerned that El Nino might engulf their homes with storm water - but they often swallow the deluge provided by El Bunko.
- It is as if we, temperamental and capricious, have been having a stormy affair with aloof, indifferent El Niño.
- Perturbations in the present system, however, did not persist beyond the end of the El Niño event as they often do in lower-latitude nearshore areas.
- A winter influenced by the El Nino phenomenon left large areas soggier than usual, NOAA said. Widespread U.S. Flooding Predicted
- Unusual heating in the Pacific waters which we refer to as el Nino. CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2007
- The dissipating El Nino effect, along with the expected anomalously warm Atlantic Ocean sea surface temperatures, will lead to favorable conditions for hurricane formation and intensification. Weather Or Not, Make Money
- In describing this ‘Australasia’ as marked by an impoverished geology and the aperiodic occurrence of el ninos, Flannery tells a morality tale about what happens when life forms exceed the limits of their environment.
- When catch of the highly variable stocks of Peruvian anchovetas, a species substantially affected by El Niño / Southern Oscillation events, is excluded, the world fish catch appears to have declined by 660,000 tons a year during that time.
