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La Nina

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-003627

La Niña, a phase of El Niño-Southern Oscillation, is a periodic cooling of surface ocean waters in the eastern tropical Pacific along with a shift in convection in the western Pacific further west than the climatological average. These conditions affect weather patterns around the world.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-003627
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectNatural Resources, Conservation, Environment
SynonymsLa Niña
ReferencesNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (CC BY 4.0)
See alsoWeather; Water currents; Pacific Ocean; El Nino
TranslationsSpanish: La Niña
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-003627",
  "term": "La Nina",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "La Niña, a phase of El Niño-Southern Oscillation, is a periodic cooling of surface ocean waters in the eastern tropical Pacific along with a shift in convection in the western Pacific further west than the climatological average. These conditions affect weather patterns around the world.",
  "synonyms": [
    "La Niña"
  ],
  "subject": "Natural Resources, Conservation, Environment",
  "see_also": [
    "weather",
    "water currents",
    "Pacific Ocean",
    "El Nino"
  ],
  "references": [
    "National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "La Niña"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/la-nina/"
}

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