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What is El Niño?
Click to View Larger El Niño, La Niña, and normal sea surface tempuratures
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Click to View Larger How El Niño affects the atmosphere
Diagram		   Click to View Larger NASA scientist David Adamec
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Click to View Larger Signs of the end of an El Niño
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Clues from the Past
Click to View Larger Thicker tree rings indicate an El Niño from the past
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Click to View Larger Ancient hillside storehouses at Ollantay Tampo
Photo		   Click to View Larger Rhoda Island in Cairo
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Click to View Larger The Nilometer on Rhoda Island in Cairo
Illustration		   Click to View Larger Thick layer of rocks deposited during an El Niño-induced flood
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Click to View Larger Beads made by ancient Peruvians from Spondylus shells
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Click to View Larger Pottery excavated from sites in the Amazon Basin
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Long Distance Connections
Click to View Larger Typical weather changes in the United States during an El Niño and during a La Niña
Diagram		   Click to View Larger Reconstructed map showing warmer ocean surface temperatures at the beginning of the 20th century
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Click to View Larger Sir Gilbert Walker
Photo		   Click to View Larger Fires rage in Indonesia before the 1997 El Niño
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Click to View Larger Smoke from fires in Indonesia
Photo		   Click to View Larger Sea surface temperature conditions during El Niño and La Niña events
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Illustration		   Click to View Larger Deer mouse
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Click to View Larger Bleached coral
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Click to View Larger Fish-eating birds and sea mammals during an El Niño
Diagram		   Click to View Larger Carole Baldwin exploring the Galápagos
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Click to View Larger Iguanas
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Click to View Larger Workers in the 1860s excavate a "mountain" of guano
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Click to View Larger White fairy tern chick
Photo		   Click to View Larger A male great frigate sitting next to the bones of a frigate that died during an El Niño

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Click to View Larger Terry Erwin and his team collect insects
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Long Distance Connections
Click to View Larger Current sea surface temperatures of the Pacific Ocean
Image		   Click to View Larger Sea surface temperatures of the Pacific Ocean during an El Niño and La Niña event
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