Climate driver · Rationale
La Nina
Cold phase of the El Nino-Southern Oscillation, in which strengthened trade winds and cool sea-surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific shift rainfall and temperature patterns worldwide.
Definition source: IPCC AR6 WGI Annex VII Glossary: El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
- Synonyms
- La Niña
- Broader
- El Nino-Southern Oscillation
- Narrower
- none
- Counts as adaptation
- Always (adaptation-specific).
- Provenance
- Restructure (v5)
- Identifier
CDI_12· https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/CDI_12
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/CDI_12)