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Hot Cradle of El Niño

Liguang Sun¹ & Zhouqing Xie¹

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1. Institute of Polar Environment, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P R China.

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Received 04 April 2008 08:25 UTC; Posted 07 April 2008

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Earth and Environment

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• El Niño
• Galapagas Ocean ridge
• hydrothermal plumes
• seismic and submarine volcanic activities

Abstract:

Here we propose that the El Niño is originated in the region of west-east oriented Galapagas ocean ridge and hydrothermal plumes. This region has a distinct tectonic structure: the subductions of ocean ridges go under continental volcanic activity zones; a special geographic location: equatorial ocean currents almost coincide with ocean ridge; and a unique south-north oriented convergent epi-continent ocean currents. The striking correlation between El Niño, seismic and submarine volcanic activities in this area and earth rotation speed changes strongly suggests that the sea floor near Peru coast sounds the “Hot Cradle” of El Niño.

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Sun, Liguang and Xie, Zhouqing. Hot Cradle of El Niño. Available from Nature Precedings <http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2008.1764.1> (2008)

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