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Q. Consider the following statements about El Nino:
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
Q. Consider the following statements about El Nino:
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
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The correct option is C 1 and 3 only
Explanation:
Statement 1 is correct:
El Nino is a climate pattern that describes the unusual warming of surface waters in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. El Nino refers to the large-scale ocean-atmosphere climate interaction linked to periodic warming in sea surface temperatures across the central and east-central Equatorial Pacific. It is associated with high pressure in the western Pacific.
Statement 2 is incorrect:
El Niño is not a regular cycle or predictable in the sense that ocean tides are.
Statement 3 is correct:
El Nino brings rain to South America, it brings droughts to Indonesia and Australia.
Explanation:
Statement 1 is correct:
El Nino is a climate pattern that describes the unusual warming of surface waters in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. El Nino refers to the large-scale ocean-atmosphere climate interaction linked to periodic warming in sea surface temperatures across the central and east-central Equatorial Pacific. It is associated with high pressure in the western Pacific.
Statement 2 is incorrect:
El Niño is not a regular cycle or predictable in the sense that ocean tides are.
Statement 3 is correct:
El Nino brings rain to South America, it brings droughts to Indonesia and Australia.
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