The unfolding 2015-16 El Niño event is already the strongest the world has seen since 1997-98, and people all over the world are feeling or expected to feel its impact in a variety of ways. El Niño has the potential to affect the destructive fire season in Indonesia and other regions, changes in the natural variation of tropospheric ozone, and the long-standing drought in California and the American West.
At a press conference hosted by the American Geophysical Union, Jim Randerson, earth system scientist, University of California, Irvine, discusses El Niño’s global reach, from the perspective of NASA’s Earth observing satellites.
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