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NASA Studying 2015 El Niño Event as Never Before
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In this side-by-side visualization, Pacific Ocean sea surface height anomalies during the 1997-98 El Niño (left) are compared with 2015…

Oct 19, 2015
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The Fickle El Niño of 2014
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This image from NASA's European Jason-2 satellite shows Kelvin waves of high sea level (red/yellow) crossing the Pacific Ocean at…

Sep 22, 2014
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‘La Nada’ Climate Pattern Lingers in the Pacific
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New data from NASA's Jason-2 satellite show near-normal sea surface heights in the equatorial Pacific Ocean persisting for a 16th…

Sep 9, 2013
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Pacific Locked in ‘La Nada’ Limbo
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The latest image of sea surface heights in the Pacific Ocean from NASA's Jason-2 satellite shows that the equatorial Pacific…

Feb 7, 2013
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After Brief Dip, Global Mean Sea Level Resumes Climb
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This figure shows changes in global mean sea level as measured by satellite altimetry (NASA/CNES Topex/Poseidon and Jason-1; and NASA/CNES/NOAA/EUMETSAT…

Oct 17, 2012
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La Niña’s Exit Leaves Climate Forecasts in Limbo
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The latest image of Pacific Ocean sea surface heights from the NASA's OSTIM/Jason-2 oceanography satellite, on June 11, 2010, shows…

Jul 6, 2011
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Regions of Mars with Clays and Hydrated Minerals Identified from Orbit
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On this map of Mars, spectrometers on spacecraft orbiting Mars have detected clay minerals (green) and hydrated minerals-- clays, sulfates…

Dec 16, 2010
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Adios El Niño, Hello La Niña?
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This image from NASA's European Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason-2 shows that the moderate El Niño of the past year has…

Jun 22, 2010
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Birth of a Loop Current Eddy
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This map shows northern portion of the Gulf of Mexico's Loop Current, shown in red, appears about to detach a…

May 24, 2010
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