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NASA examines El Nino's impact on ocean's food source

2016-04-09 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environmental News Network: El Nio years can have a big impact on the littlest plants in the ocean, and NASA scientists are studying the relationship between the two. In El Nio years, huge masses of warm water equivalent to about half of the volume of the Mediterranean Sea slosh east across the Pacific Ocean towards South America. While this warm water changes storm systems in the atmosphere, it also has an impact below the oceans surface. These impacts, which researchers can visualize with satellite data, can ripple...

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