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Contents of Volume 5,
Number 2, 1999
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BY ANTONIO DIVINO MOURA, DIRECTOR, IRA and
PHILLIP A. ARKIN, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, IRI
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BY
STEVEN ZEBIAK |
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For at least the last 100,000 years El Niños have been a dominant
cause of year-to-year climatic variations over much of the world. Although
they have been known and studied by generations of scientists, it is only
in the last few years that they have at last become predictable. [see also: article overview]
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BY
CHESTER ROPELEWSKI |
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The El Niño that came to stay in March of 1997 was the greatest
of modern times in terms of the amplitude and duration of its impacts
on the weather in Asia, Oceania, North and South America, and Africa.
It was also the most thoroughly observed and one of the first for which
advance warnings were available and acted upon. [see also: article overview]
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BY
E. S. SARACHIK |
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Improved seasonal and interannual climate predictions, such as those that
have recently become available for El Niños and La Niñas,
can benefit nearly every area of modern life. Getting the most from these
new-found but necessarily probabilistic projections will require the active
involvement of planners and decision makers, repeated practice, and a
certain amount of public education. [see also: article overview]
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ISSN 1080-5702 Volume 5 Number 2 1999 |
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