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Article: The giant energetic heat engine in the Pacific ...
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin;  November 25, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... energetic heat engine in the Pacific Ocean is sloshing against the western ... surrounded by colder-than-normal water. Just because Mother Nature ... the 2004-05 winter. When the Pacific Ocean started warming dramatically ...

Article: Now it's La Nina.(El Nina weather system is building over the ...
Popular Mechanics;  October 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... warm pool broadens. Then, as El Nino weakens the pendulum sometimes swings back past where it started. Colder-than-normal water dominates. In past La Nina years the temperatures have dropped to as much as 7 [degrees] F below their normal lows, which ...

Article: Unfavorable conditions hamper crops
St. Joseph News-Press;  July 20, 2003 ;     522 words ... ... that La Nina seems to be fizzling," she said, referring to a recent weather phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean marked by cooler-than-normal water temperatures and easterly winds. La Nina events often bring drought to the Midwest.

Article: Sask Crop Production Week: El Nino Still A Problem.
Resource News International;  January 11, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... the Saskatchewan Crop Production week here. El Nino refers to a current that develops in the Pacific Ocean, characterized by warmer than normal water temperatures. It has a negative impact on weather in Australia and India. He noted that the ...

Article: A Distinctly Interdecadal Signal of Pacific ...
Journal of Climate;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... interdecadal signal in the climate of the Pacific Ocean has been uncovered by examining the ... distinctly interdecadal signal of Pacific Ocean SST variability that likely also represents ... the true interdecadal behavior of the Pacific Ocean-atmosphere system. The residual ...

Article: Pacific Ocean
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ...Pacific Ocean largest and deepest ocean, c.70 ... Physical Geography Extent and Seas The Pacific Ocean extends from the arctic to antarctic ... Peninsula. The principal arms of the Pacific Ocean are (in the north) the Bering Sea ...

Article: Dennis Wilson's Long-Lost Masterpiece, Pacific ...
PR Newswire;  June 25, 2008 ;     686 words ... ... NEW YORK, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Pacific Ocean Blue: Legacy Edition (Caribou/Epic ... bin/prnh/20060130/LEGACYLOGO) Pacific Ocean Blue: Legacy Edition -- a two-CD ... the more remarkable considering that Pacific Ocean Blue was originally released more than ...