Currents of change
Subtitle: El Nino's impact on climate and society
By: Michael H. Glantz.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Cambridge ; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Climatic changes.; El Niño Current.
Description: Scientists have recently come to recognize that some of the widely dispersed climatic extremes affecting the earth might have a common origin in the phenomena of El Niño--the periodic warming of sea surface water in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. This book explains in simple terms what El Nino is, how its effects might be forecast and its far reaching impacts on all of us. - Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-187) and index.

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