Subject: El Nino's warm water pool is increasing
Date: Nov 18 15:45:18 1997
From: Peggi & Ben Rodgers - woodduck at cruzio.com
Hi Tweets!
Here's an interesting El Nino message from JPL.
Peggi
>PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
>JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
>CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
>NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
>PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91109. TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011
>http://www.jpl.nasa.gov
>
>Contact: Mary Hardin
> (818) 354-0344
>
>INTERNET ADVISORY November 18, 1997
>
>DATA SHOW EL NINO'S WARM WATER POOL IS INCREASING
>
> The most recent satellite image shows that the large, warm
>water mass related to the El Nio condition has increased in
>volume in the equatorial Pacific Ocean.
>
> The image is now available online at:
>
>http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/elnino .
>
> The image was created using sea surface height measurements
>taken by the U.S./French TOPEX/Poseidon satellite, managed at
>NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California
>Institute of Technology.
>
> The image shows sea surface height relative to normal ocean
>conditions on Nov. 10, 1997 as the warm water associated with El
>Nio spreads northward along the entire coast of North America
>from the equator all the way to Alaska. The volume of extra surface
>warm water in the core of the El Nio continues to increase,
>especially in the area between 15 degrees South latitude and 15
>degrees North latitude in the Pacific Ocean.
>
> #####
>.-
>
>
Ben & Peggi Rodgers
Aptos, CA (near Santa Cruz 122 W, 37 N)
USA
woodduck at cruzio.com
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