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Atmosphere drives El Niño storms, scientists say
West Coast storms last winter linked to El Niño more to atmospheric changes than ocean alone. Scripps oceanographer James J. Simpson argued that atmosphere shifts transmitted El Niño effects to North America, challenging the theory that equatorial water movements alone caused the storms.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
James J. Simpson
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
la Jolla
North America
Simpson
California
American Geophysical Union
Equator
Western Pacific
Latin America
John S. Allen
Oregon State University
U.S. West Coast
Oregon
Washington
West Coast