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Read the following statements and choose the correct option given below:a. El-Nino is merely an extension of the warm equatorial current.b. El-Nino means "Child Christ".c. El-Nino is a current that appears around Christmas in December.d. El-Nino is used in India for forecasting long-range monsoon rainfall.1. Statement c is not correct2. Statement b and c are not correct3. Statement d is not correct4. All statements are correct

Answer» Correct Answer - Option 4 : All statements are correct

The Correct Answer is All statements are correct.

 

  • The Spanish immigrants called it El Nino, meaning “the little boy or Child Christ” in Spanish.
  • El Nino refers to the unusual warming of the central and east-central equatorial Pacific Ocean which affects global weather.
  • The warmer waters of the Pacific Ocean cause the winds in various regions to reverse, like the trade winds that come towards India.
  • This change of wind direction leads to warmer winters and summers and a decrease in rainfall during the monsoon.
  • Most of the time, it also leads to drought.
  • El Nino soon came to describe irregular and intense climate changes rather than just the warming of coastal surface waters.
  • When coastal waters become warmer in the eastern tropical Pacific (El Nino), the atmospheric pressure above the ocean decreases 
  • La Nina
    • There is also an opposite of an El Nino, called La Nina means The Little Girl in Spanish.
    • This refers to times when waters of the tropical eastern Pacific are colder than normal and trade winds blow more strongly than usual.
    • Collectively, El Nino and La Nina are parts of an oscillation in the ocean-atmosphere system called the El Nino-Southern Oscillation, or ENSO cycle.


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