EL Niño Quiz

Welcome! In answering the questions on this quiz you will want to refer to our Marine Science Library. There you'll find links to many different sites that will help you answer the questions.
Letter in the Fall we will begin working with questions that will require direct email contact with some of the scientists working both in North America and in South America, on the El Nino.

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How did you learn about El Niño?

What is ENSO? Describe it's expression. When was it first recognized? How often do El Niño's occur?

What is the Pacific "warm pool"? How does it change in and out of the El Niño condition?

What is the Equatorial Undercurrent

What happens to the Equatorial Undercurrent during El Niño?

During El Niño, what happens to your local Weather Pattern?

What happens to Global Weather Patterns during El Niño?

What is La Niña? How is it different from El Niño?br>

Give 3 ways we can tell there is an El Niño.

Is there a relationship between El Niño and Hurricanes?

Is El Niño a local, regional and/or global phenomena? Give examples justifying your choice.

What climatic effects are felt in Australia during El Niño events? What effects are felt in North America?

What happened at the Galapagos Islands during the 1982 El Niño?

What is SST? How is it measured? What are typical units? What are the uncertainties? How does it relate to El Niño?

What causes the ocean mixed layer to be mixed?

Describe a connection between El Niño and the (a) hydrosphere, (b) biosphere, (c) geosphere, (d) ³humansphere² and (e) atmosphere.

Extra Credit Question:(the best reports will be added as a special part of the El Niño Web

Provide two examples of conflicting information about El Niño from the web sites you have examined.

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. Special Thanks to UCSB El Niño Lab for some of our questions.