Global warming may have spawned a new type of El Nino in the central Pacific and this could worsen the droughts in Australia and India, a new study by researchers in South Korea and the United States has found.While the conventional El Nino is a warm body of water stretching across the tropical Eastern Pacific, this new El Nino is a horseshoe-shaped region of warm ocean in the central Pacific flanked by unusually cooler waters, they wrote in a paper published in the latest issue of Nature.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Alertnet: Global warming created new (and worse) type of El Niño
Reuters reported on the publication in the most recent issue of Nature of research that assesses the impact of global warming on El Niño in Australia and India:
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