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Friday, September 04, 2015 8:39:02 PM
Repeat: F6 - Cool graph .. El Nino/La Nina Explainer .. added novice detail .. lol .. most notes are direct quotes .. i hope .. :)
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=74345898 .. also linked
here .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=88263287 .. as, yep,
gulp, still, working toward more 'comfortable' understanding level, closer to yours .. grin ..
This is a good one on the, thanks to algae/phytoplankton colors and "NASA's new Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor (SeaWiFS)"
For years scientists have known that El Niño and La Niña change the levels of phytoplankton across the entire Pacific basin. During a normal year, winds gust at a steady rate from east to west across the Pacific and slowly blow the warm surface waters towards Australia and the Indonesian Archipelago. Over a period of time, these winds build up a "warm pool" of water in the western Pacific and leave the eastern Pacific relatively cool. This layer of warm water smothers any upwelling currents, which bring cool, nutrient-rich waters up from the depths of the sea (Njoku et al. 1993). Since phytoplankton can only survive in these nutrient-filled waters, the plants do not usually do well in the western Pacific and thrive in the eastern and central Pacific (Murtugudde et al. 1999).
Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view (SeaWiFS) images of the Galapagos islands and surrounding waters from May 9, 1998 (top) and May 24,
1998 (bottom). The equatorial current shut down by El Niño reappeared over a period of days—indicated by the high concentrations
of phytoplankton chlorophyll streaming to the west in the later image. (Courtesy Gene Feldman, SeaWiFS Project)
.. mucho more .. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ElNinoColor/
.. hope these are interesting, so useful, to at least one other, still, too .. lol ..
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=74345898 .. also linked
here .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=88263287 .. as, yep,
gulp, still, working toward more 'comfortable' understanding level, closer to yours .. grin ..
This is a good one on the, thanks to algae/phytoplankton colors and "NASA's new Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor (SeaWiFS)"
For years scientists have known that El Niño and La Niña change the levels of phytoplankton across the entire Pacific basin. During a normal year, winds gust at a steady rate from east to west across the Pacific and slowly blow the warm surface waters towards Australia and the Indonesian Archipelago. Over a period of time, these winds build up a "warm pool" of water in the western Pacific and leave the eastern Pacific relatively cool. This layer of warm water smothers any upwelling currents, which bring cool, nutrient-rich waters up from the depths of the sea (Njoku et al. 1993). Since phytoplankton can only survive in these nutrient-filled waters, the plants do not usually do well in the western Pacific and thrive in the eastern and central Pacific (Murtugudde et al. 1999).
Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view (SeaWiFS) images of the Galapagos islands and surrounding waters from May 9, 1998 (top) and May 24,
1998 (bottom). The equatorial current shut down by El Niño reappeared over a period of days—indicated by the high concentrations
of phytoplankton chlorophyll streaming to the west in the later image. (Courtesy Gene Feldman, SeaWiFS Project)
.. mucho more .. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ElNinoColor/
.. hope these are interesting, so useful, to at least one other, still, too .. lol ..
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