El Niño Project (Part 1)

A bunch of Azimuth Project members like to program, so the Azimuth Code Project has been around for a while… but now it’s taken a new turn! We’re trying to understand and predict the climate phenomenon known as El Niño.

Why? Several reasons:

• It’s the biggest source of variability in the Earth’s climate on times scales between a year and a decade. It causes weather disturbances in many regions, especially near the Pacific Ocean. The last really big one happened in 1997-1998, and we’re waiting...