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Since el nino is unaffected by ice ages the most likely scenario is that el nino only depends on the tropics for its creation.So it is most likely self-triggering. The humidity and temperature of air east of indonesia (droughts come to indonesia in el nino years) and new guinea must reach such...

Is this a more convincing explanation for the onset of el nino:Warmer air and water than normal pass from the arctic through the bearing strait area and warm the westerly winds. The westerlies pass heat on to the equatorial current via the california current. This warmer air passes north of...

La nina events are the opposite of el nino events - the eastern pacific becomes colder and the western pacific warmer than usual. La nina occurs 50 per cent of the time after el nino events. Is this simple explanation for la nina likely to be right? If sufficient warm water from an el nino...

What triggers the onset of an el nino event? Are my conclusions listed below reasonable? The southward conduction and flow of cold air and water from the arctic region in the north are inhibited by local air and sea currents in and around the arctic warming the pacific ocean around indonesia...