CLIMATE OF INDIA
EL NINO AND SOUTHERN OSCILLATIONS
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
Which of the following statement (s) is/are correct about El Nino?
|
|
The term El Nino translates from Spanish as ‘the boy-child’
|
|
|
Peruvian fishermen originally used the term to describe the appearance, around Christmas, of a warm ocean current off the South American coast.
|
|
|
It is now the commonly accepted term to describe the warming of the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.
|
|
|
. All of the above
|
Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Correct Answer is All statements are correct. The Spanish immigrants called it El Nino, meaning “the little boy or Child Christ” in Spanish. El Nino refers to the unusual warming of the central and east-central equatorial Pacific Ocean which affects global weather.
Detailed explanation-2: -An El Niño condition occurs when surface water in the equatorial Pacific becomes warmer than average and east winds blow weaker than normal.
Detailed explanation-3: -So, we could conclude that from the given examples, the one that is not true of an El Niño– Southern Oscillation (ENSO) event is : It causes increased upwelling on the coast of South America.
There is 1 question to complete.