Asked by caleb
How does La Niña impact the global climate?
warming the global atmosphere
causing widespread coral bleaching
cooling ocean surface waters
decreasing precipitation worldwide
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Correct answer: cooling ocean surface waters.
La Niña is the cool phase of the ENSO cycle — it features cooler-than-average sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific. It alters global weather patterns (e.g., wetter than normal in parts of Australia and Indonesia, drier in the U.S. Southwest), tends to lower global average temperatures relative to El Niño, and is less associated with widespread coral bleaching than El Niño.
La Niña is the cool phase of the ENSO cycle — it features cooler-than-average sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific. It alters global weather patterns (e.g., wetter than normal in parts of Australia and Indonesia, drier in the U.S. Southwest), tends to lower global average temperatures relative to El Niño, and is less associated with widespread coral bleaching than El Niño.
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