Which of the following statements is/are correct?
- 1. The jet streams are high altitude easterly winds.
- 2. El Niño is a warm ocean current.
- 3. El Niño appears along the Peru coast.
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1 only
2 and 3 only
1 and 3 only
1, 2 and 3
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UPSC CAPF – 2022
– Statement 2: El Niño is indeed a warm ocean current. It refers to the large-scale ocean-atmosphere climate interaction linked to a periodic warming of the sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean.
– Statement 3: El Niño appears along the Peru coast. The warming associated with El Niño is most prominent in the eastern equatorial Pacific, off the coasts of Ecuador and Peru.
– El Niño is the warm phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) climate pattern. Its opposite phase, La Niña, is characterized by unusually cold ocean temperatures in the same region.
– El Niño events have significant global climatic consequences, affecting rainfall patterns, temperatures, and extreme weather events in many parts of the world, including the Indian subcontinent (often associated with weaker monsoons).