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• El Niño Cartoons - Almost 40 cartoons in the collection.


• Search the El Niño publications database.


• El Niño: Facts, Figures, Images and Predictions. This paper, published in College & Research Libraries News, is available online by following the link above.
  Print version: Mariner, Vincent A., 1998: College & Research Libraries News, v59, no.9, p. 663-667.

• Comprehensive Bibliography On The El Niño Phenomena.
  
  
• El Niño Mediagraphy compiles resources such as film, videotape, atlases, CD-Roms and other media depicting El Niño.
  
  
• The North American Climate Patterns Associated With The El Niño-Southern Oscillation. This is the online companion to the print version released as COAPS Project Report Series 97-1 in March 1997.
  
  
• Impacts of ENSO on U.S. Tornadic Activity.
  
  
• An exciting CD-Rom about El Niño is now available.

El Niño refers to a massive warming off the coastal waters of Peru and Ecuador and the Southern Oscillation to the related atmospheric component of this phenomenon, often abbreviated as ENSO. The ocean warming covers a band from 10 degrees N to 10 degrees S and extends more than 90 degrees of longitude. Typically, the warming starts late in the boreal spring or summer and builds to a peak at the end of the year, with the event usually over by the following summer. It is a quasi-periodic phenomenon with global consequences in the form of flooding, droughts, and other phenomena. (TAMU, Glossary of Oceanography and the Related Geosciences with References)

Please visit the ENSO Index According to JMA SSTA page for more information.