1. What is El Niño?
El Nino is an abnormal warming of surface ocean waters in the eastern tropical Pacific.
2. How is it studied? What specific things are measured and how?
It was studied by using buoys and satellites. They measured wind, temperature, and ocean currents. Temperature is measured by water sensors.
3. What are its effects? (Be specific.)
Its effects are causing major climate changes and possibly even floods, hurricanes, etc. Areas that usually wet would become dry while the opposite happens to dry areas.
4. What causes El Niño?
People don't know what causes El Niño.
5. How are models used to determine when they will occur and how strong they will be?
The models are used by getting information from the past and makes a prediction on what's going to happen by past patterns.
6. How can we study the past to understand the future?
We can study by learning what happened in the past, and predict what would happen in the future to improve.
Summary: What was one interesting thing you learned today?
One interesting thing that I learned today is that a changing of water temperature can cause rain to turn to ice and cause forest fires to turn into an everlasting fire.
El Nino is an abnormal warming of surface ocean waters in the eastern tropical Pacific.
2. How is it studied? What specific things are measured and how?
It was studied by using buoys and satellites. They measured wind, temperature, and ocean currents. Temperature is measured by water sensors.
3. What are its effects? (Be specific.)
Its effects are causing major climate changes and possibly even floods, hurricanes, etc. Areas that usually wet would become dry while the opposite happens to dry areas.
4. What causes El Niño?
People don't know what causes El Niño.
5. How are models used to determine when they will occur and how strong they will be?
The models are used by getting information from the past and makes a prediction on what's going to happen by past patterns.
6. How can we study the past to understand the future?
We can study by learning what happened in the past, and predict what would happen in the future to improve.
Summary: What was one interesting thing you learned today?
One interesting thing that I learned today is that a changing of water temperature can cause rain to turn to ice and cause forest fires to turn into an everlasting fire.