File:“Hot Spots” off the Pacific coast on 28th January 1998 during El Niño and on 14th April 1999 during La Niña (32367659736).jpg

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Anticyclonic (clockwise rotating) eddies of water act as oases in the open ocean off the Pacific coast of Central America. Pacific Hot Spots on 28 Jan 1998 (El-Niño-Year) and on 14 Apr 1999 (La-Niña-Year). Wind jetting through the mountain passes of Central Amerlca moves warm, enriched coastal waters offshore into the Pacific.

These eddies of warm water, stronger and more prevalent during El Niño years and weaker and less common during La Niña years, may meld, forming hot spots in the open sea. Census scientists have learned the hot spots support elevated levels of the tiny phytoplankton that form the base of the marin food web. These verdant meadows in the vast Pacific in turn attract or concenctrate species from all tiers of the food web from shrimp to large predators like tuna, seabirds and whales.
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Author Karl-Ludwig Poggemann from Salzbergen, Germany

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