Part 1: El Niño: How a Warm Patch of Pacific Water Came to Rule India’s Monsoon | The Rearview Podcast
How can a patch of warm water thousands of kilometres from India determine whether its farms flourish or fail? And how did a mathematician help uncover one of the greatest hidden connections in the planet’s weather?In the first episode of this three-part story, we trace the strange history of El Niño and the centuries-long struggle to predict the Indian monsoon. The journey begins off the coast of Peru, where fishermen gave a deceptively tender name—the Christ Child—to warm waters that devastated their rich fisheries.From there, we travel to nineteenth-century India, where catastrophic famines made forecasting the monsoon a matter of life and death.
- ▪How can a patch of warm water thousands of kilometres from India determine whether its farms flourish or fail?
- ▪And how did a mathematician help uncover one of the greatest hidden connections in the planet’s weather?In the first episode of this three-part story, we trace the strange history of El Niño and the centuries-long struggle to predict the In
- ▪The journey begins off the coast of Peru, where fishermen gave a deceptively tender name—the Christ Child—to warm waters that devastated their rich fisheries.From there, we travel to nineteenth-century India, where catastrophic famines made
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How can a patch of warm water thousands of kilometres from India determine whether its farms flourish or fail? And how did a mathematician help uncover one of the greatest hidden connections in the planet’s weather?In the first episode of this three-part story, we trace the strange history of El Niño and the centuries-long struggle to predict the Indian monsoon. The journey begins off the coast of Peru, where fishermen gave a deceptively tender name—the Christ Child—to warm waters that devastated their rich fisheries.From there, we travel to nineteenth-century India, where catastrophic famines made forecasting the monsoon a matter of life and death.
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