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Strong La Niña in December 2010

These images show that the central and eastern Pacific Ocean was unusually cold in December 2010, a tell-tale sign of La Niña. The associated rainfall map shows that La Niña was impacting weather in parts of the globe.


NASA Earth Observatory images created by Jesse Allen, using JASON-2 data provided courtesy of Akiko Hayashi (NASA/JPL), AMSR-E data processed and provided by Chelle Gentemann and Frank Wentz, Remote Sensing Systems, and near-real-time data rainfall data provided courtesy of TRMM Science Data and Information System at Goddard Space Flight Center. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published December 24, 2010
Data acquired November 23 - December 22, 2010

Sources:
Aqua > AMSR-E
JASON-2
TRMM > MPA