What is La Nina and how does it occur?

Answer 1

La Nina is the cool phase of ENSO (El Nino Southern Oscillation), with the warm phase being El Nino. It features a cooling of the waters in the Tropical Pacific. In the atmosphere, the trade winds are strengthened and there is even stronger upwelling off the coast of South America, which allows cooler water to move further to the west.
As with El Nino, it occurs at irregular intervals every 2-7 years and can last from about 6 to 18 months. Its effects globally vary from one location to the next, and are often quite different from thoes of El Nino.

it means little girl

Answer 2

If the language is Spanish, then it doesn't mean anything. The article'el' means 'the' but it is also in masculine form. The word 'niña' means 'child' but it is in feminine form. For obvious reasons, you cannot mix the two forms. Instead of 'el niña' you can say 'el niño,' which means 'the child' (masculine), or you can say 'la niña,' which means 'the child' (feminine).

Answer 3

La Nina

A cooling of the ocean surface off the western coast of South America that occurs every 2 to 7 years when upwelling of cold, nutrient-rich water becomes enhanced. It can alter storm tracks and creating unusual weather patterns in various parts of the world.

[American Spanish, from Spanish, the Christ child (from its onset being around Christmastime) : la, the + niña, child.

A La Nino event results from strengthened trade winds across the Tropical Pacific Ocean, causing anomaloously cool water to flow west from the coast of South America, where more of it is upwelled. This cold water that originates deep in the ocean happens to be nutrient-rich, which provides plenty of food for local fish and the organisms that eat them.

What happens to the ocean also affects the atmosphere. Tropical thunderstorms are fueled by hot, humid air over the oceans. The hotter the air, the stronger and bigger the thunderstorms, and the lower the atmospheric pressure. As the Pacific's warmest water remains confined to the western Pacific, the relatively stationary low pressure system remains confined to that area and strengthens. This is the "Southern Oscillation", or atmospheric, component of this oscillation.

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La Nina is the cool phase of ENSO (El Nino Southern Oscillation), with the warm phase being El Nino. It features a cooling of the waters in the Tropical Pacific. In the atmosphere, the trade winds are strengthened and there is even stronger upwelling off the coast of South America, which allows cooler water to move further to the west.

As with El Nino, it occurs at irregular intervals every 2-7 years and can last from about 6 to 18 months. Its effects globally vary from one location to the next, and are often quite different from those of El Nino.

Parts of Australia and Indonesia are particularly prone to drought during this phase. However, unusually wet and stormy weather occurs in the Philippines.

In the United States, the storm track tends to be further to the north, bringing severe weather further north and west in the warm season. During the winter, warmer temperatures and less precipitation can be expected along the east coast. The Pacific Northwest experiences colder than normal winters and above average precipitation in the late fall and early winter. It also tends to be wetter than usual in the Midwest.

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A La Nina is a irregular recurring upwelling of cold water on the ocean surface. It is caused by changes in global atmospheric circulation patterns. For the US it can cause significant droughts, prohibits rain cloud formation, precipitation is below normal, cold weather appears in the Northwest, and higher than normal temperatures occur in Mid-Atlantic states,

Answer 4

The words 'la nina' mean 'the female child'.

The words 'La Nina' refer to a water current in the Pacific ocean a little west of Central America.

The capitalisation (or lack of it) are all-important to the meaning.

Answer 5

La Nina- Usually cold ocean temp. in the equatorial pacific.

Answer 6

it is water