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10.20.04
 

This images show trade winds meeting in the central Pacific where the warm water anomalies are concentrated.
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Image above: Split Winds - The SeaWinds instrument on NASA's Quick Scatterometer (QuikScat) satellite has shown stronger than normal trade winds for this time of year on the eastern side of the basin. Since the 1997 to 1998 El Nino, these trade winds have exhibited a kind of "split personality" condition during times when the Central equatorial Pacific warmed. In the west, when the trades have weakened; the east has either maintained their strength or blown more strongly than normal. This images show trade winds meeting in the central Pacific where the warm water anomalies are concentrated. Credit: NASA

 
 
Rani Chohan
Goddard Space Flight Center
 
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