Buoy oh buoy: Comprehensive El Niño data

New data show that the 1997–1998 El Niño warming of the equatorial Pacific shut down the nutrient supply to this vast tract of ocean, and provide an unprecedented view of El Niño’s causes and consequences in its source region.

Chavez, F.P., et al. 1999. Biological and chemical response of the equatorial Pacific Ocean to the 1997–98 El Niño. Science 286(Dec. 10):2126.

Monastersky, R. 1999. Good-bye to a greenhouse gas. Science News 155(June 19):392.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s El Niño theme page is available at http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/el-nino/nino-home.html, and the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean Array Project is at http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/home.html.

Francisco P. Chavez
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
P.O. Box 628
7700 Sandholdt Road
Moss Landing, CA 95039-0628

Michael R. Landry
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Department of Oceanography
Honolulu, HI 96822

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 24, December 11, 1999, p. 374. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.