EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does El Nino southern oscillation mean? 

• EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (noun)
  The noun EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION has 1 sense:

1. a more intense El Nino that occurs every few years when the welling up of cold nutrient-rich water does not occur; kills plankton and fish and affects weather patterns

  Familiarity information: EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A more intense El Nino that occurs every few years when the welling up of cold nutrient-rich water does not occur; kills plankton and fish and affects weather patterns

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Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("El Nino southern oscillation" is a kind of...):

El Nino ((oceanography) a warm ocean current that flows along the equator from the date line and south off the coast of Ecuador at Christmas time)