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La Niña is characterized by unusually cold ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific, as compared to El Niño, which is characterized by unusually warm ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific

El Niño (December 1997)

La Niña (December 2000)
El Ni?o (December 1997) (March 2002)

SST anomalies (°C)
Sea surface temperature anomalies (°C)
General Information What is La Niña? ...from the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
La Niña information ... from NOAA Public Affairs
Frequently asked questions - updated
Global Sea Surface Temperature charts ...by the National Satellite, Data and Information Service
El Niño watch latest ...from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Update on status of La Niña ... from the Climate Prediction Center
List of El Niño & La Niña years ...from the National Center for Environmental Prediction
El Niño/La Niña research and references ...Climate Diagnostics Center
La Niña conditions continue to evolve (July update) ...International Research Institute for Climate Prediction
Present conditions vs historic La Niña events ...Climate Diagnostics Center
La Niña page ...from National Center for Atmospheric Research
1988 - 1989 La Niña ...from CNRS, France
Realtime El Niño / La Niña visualizations ...from the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
La Niña and El Niño visualizations ...from the Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
Tropical Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature image loops ...from the NOAA/NESDIS Office of Research Applications
GLOBE La Niña / El Niño experiment ... from the GLOBE program - good educational resource
Children of the Tropics: El Niño and La Niña ... from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Animation of 3D TAO La Niña temperatures ...from the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Forecasts ENSO Advisory ... from the National Center for Environmental Prediction
La Niña and El Niño forecasts ...from the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
International forecasts, by region ...from the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction
Monthly and three-monthly U.S. temperature and precipitation outlook/forecasts and legend (what the colors mean) ...from the Climate Prediction Center
Seasonal oulooks for the U.S. Temperature and Precipitation forecast with legend ...from the Climate Prediction Center
2000 Atlantic ocean Hurricane outlook ...from the Climate Prediction Center
Impact Historic U.S La Niña and El Niño impacts ...from the Climate Prediction Center
U.S. Threats assessment ...from the Climate Prediction Center
Surface Temperature and Precipitation anomalies during El Niño and La Niña ...from NASA
Impacts of El Niño and La Niña ...from Department of Meteorology, Naval Postgraduate School
Impact on California rainfall ....from San Francisco State University
La Niña and the (US) Pacific Northwest ...from University Washington
Depiction of the 1997/98 El Niño La Niña impacts ... from the National Climatic Data Center
La Niña, El Niño and the Atlantic Hurricane damages in the U.S. ...from the Atlantic Ocean Marine Laboratory
La Niña summit A recent La Niña summit ...from the National Center for Atmospheric Research
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