Tagged: La Niña

Expect the new normal for NZ’s temperature to get warmer - The Changing Climate

Guest Author • Jan 21, 2021 •

• climate change,
• ENSO,
• La Niña

James Renwick, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington It might be summer in New Zealand but we’re in for some wild weather this week with forecasts of heavy wind and rain, and a plunge in temperatures. Long term, though, New Zealand is definitely warming up, along with the rest of the globe. The National Institute of Water … Read More

Meet El Niño’s cranky uncle that could send global warming into hyperdrive - Guest Work

Guest Author • Feb 07, 2017 •

• Climate,
• climate change,
• Drought,
• El Niño,
• El Tío,
• Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation,
• La Niña,
• Pacific,
• weather

By Ben Henley, University of Melbourne; Andrew King, University of Melbourne; Chris Folland, Met Office Hadley Centre; David Karoly, University of Melbourne; Jaci Brown, CSIRO, and Mandy Freund, University of Melbourne You’ve probably heard about El Niño, the climate system that brings dry and often hotter weather … Read More

What wind, currents and geography tell us about how people first settled Oceania - Guest Work

Guest Author • Oct 27, 2016 •

• anthropology,
• Climate,
• El Niñ,
• La Niña,
• migration,
• Oceania,
• Pacific,
• simulations

By Alvaro Montenegro, The Ohio State University Just look at a map of Remote Oceania – the region of the Pacific that contains Hawaii, New Zealand, Samoa, French Polynesia and Micronesia – and it’s hard not to wonder how people originally settled on these islands. They’re mostly small and located many hundreds to thousands of kilometers away from any … Read More

When the world warms, the Arctic burns - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • May 19, 2016 •

• arctic,
• El Niño,
• Environment and Ecology,
• La Niña,
• melting,
• sea ice,
• Temperature,
• warm

The Arctic has been ridiculously warm this last northern hemisphere winter. The sea ice maximum in March was the smallest in the record (by a small margin). April was another warm month in the far North — especially over Greenland — and May is continuing the warm streak. The sea ice is showing the effects of prolonged unusual … Read More

The Climate Show #29: if the sun don’t come, you get a tan from standing in the English rain - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Oct 11, 2012 •

• Antarctica,
• Arctic sea ice,
• Australia,
• Broecker,
• Climate politics,
• Climate Science,
• La Niña,
• mammoths,
• methane,
• permafrost,
• rain,
• Sea level,
• The Climate Show,
• Thwaites Glacier,
• USA

This week The Climate Show brings you an all news special. We have wet summers for Europe, permafrost warming delivering a methane kick, La Niña driving floods that make sea level fall, a glacier calving in Antarctica, mammoths and sabre tooth tigers — all delivered with Glenn and Gareth’s inimitable panache (!). Watch The Climate [...] … Read More

Sea level fall and floods due to massive evaporation - Waiology

Waiology • Nov 21, 2011 •

• ENSO,
• Evaporation,
• Flooding,
• La Niña,
• Sea level

By Daniel Collins On average, about 87% of the Earth’s evaporation takes place over the oceans. 9% of this water then makes it over the land and falls as precipitation, the rest falls back to the sea. But this is just an average. Over much of 2010, there was so much evaporation from the oceans that the global average … Read More