“厄尔尼诺”现象通常在圣旦节前后开始出现,“厄尔尼诺”一词是西班牙文:Elni(?)o 即:“圣婴”的意思,该现象主要是由太平洋的热带海洋和大气发生异常变化造成的,海洋气象工作者认为“厄尔尼诺”年是东太平洋赤道地区海温异常增高的年份,如果将东太平洋赤道海温的正距平区的形成作为:“厄尔尼诺”年的开始,经历海温正距平区扩展到中太平洋的盛期,直到这一地区海温正距平消失,历时8—12个月,出现大幅度的海温异 The “El Nino” phenomenon usually starts before and after the Christmas Day. The term “El Niño” is Spanish: Elni (?) O means “Santa Baby”, which is caused mainly by the anomalies in the Pacific Ocean’s tropical oceans and the atmosphere As a result of the changes, marine meteorologists believe that the El Niño year is an unusually high year for the SST in the equatorial Eastern Pacific Ocean. If the positive anomalous zone of the equatorial Pacific equatorial Pacific is formed as the beginning of the El Niño year, Wenzheng anping extended to the mid-pacific peak until the anomalous SST anomaly disappeared in this area, which lasted for 8-12 months and experienced a significant difference in SST