The oceanic current produced by the irregularly periodic variation in winds and sea surface temperatures over the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean is known as:
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AHumboldt current
BEl Nino
CCanary current
DAgulhas current
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BEl Nino
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El Nino–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is an irregularly periodic variation in winds and sea surface temperatures over the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean, affecting the climate of much of the tropics and subtropics.
The warming phase of the sea temperature is known as El Nino and the cooling phase as La Nina.
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Humboldt Current
The Humboldt Current is also known as the Peruvian Current.
The Current is a cold, low-salinity ocean current that flows north of the western coast of South America.
The current extends from southern Chile to northern Peru where upwelled, cold, waters intersect warm tropical waters to form the equatorial front.
Canary Current
It is a wind-driven current in North Atlantic Gyre.
It is a type of cold current.
Agulhas Current
It is a warm current (red) along the east coast of South Africa, and the cold Benguela current (blue) along the west coast.
Two Pacific Ocean maps, a normal year and an El Nino year, showing how the equatorial winds and warm water move.
