El Niño Conditions Are Growing Stronger - related image preview

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El Niño Conditions Are Growing Stronger

Weakening trade winds are allowing warm water to move east across the Pacific in a telltale pattern.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using Jason-2 data provided by Akiko Kayashi and Bill Patzert, NASA/JPL Ocean Surface Topography Team. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.

Published August 5, 2015
Data acquired January - July 2015

Sources:
JASON-2
TOPEX/Poseidon