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El Niño’s Shifting Winds

A NASA scatterometer observes how winds shifted over the Pacific Ocean during one of the strongest El Niños on record.


NASA Earth Observatory maps by Joshua Stevens using RapidScat data from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Caption by Michael Carlowicz.

Published March 3, 2016
Data acquired January 1, 2015 - January 28, 2016

Source:
ISS > RapidScat