NOVA Season 26 Episode 2 Chasing El Nino 1998
A massive planet-sized machine controls our weather day-to-day, and our climate season-to-season. It takes an event of staggering proportions to disrupt a machine this large and powerful, a juggernaut with more energy than a million nuclear bombs. Signs now indicate that such an event is underway - El Niño. More than a series of storms stunning the California coastline, El Niño is second only to the seasons in its effect on global weather. In a P-3 off the coast, a team plunges into a storm front to explore its cause and effects. In a boat off the Galapagos, an array of buoys are checked for temperature and current data. On a mountan in Peru, signs of the devastation of past El Niños are revealed. As scientists push to extremes to explore this phenomenon, they understand for the first time the extent to which all the world's weather is connected, and just how delicate is the balance.
- Released: 1998-10-13
- Runtime: 55 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
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1. Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude 1998-10-06
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2. Chasing El Nino 1998-10-13
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3. Terror In Space 1998-10-27
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4. Special Effects: Titanic and Beyond 1998-11-03
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5. Deadly Shadow of Vesuvius 1998-11-10
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6. Ice Mummies: Frozen in Heaven (1) 1998-11-24
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7. Ice Mummies: Siberian Ice Maiden (2) 1998-11-24
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8. Ice Mummies: Return of the Iceman (3) 1998-11-24
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10. The Perfect Pearl 1998-12-29
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11. The Beast of Loch Ness 1999-01-12
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12. Submarines, Secrets, and Spies 1999-01-19
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18. Battle Alert in the Gulf 1999-02-23
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19. Volcanoes of the Deep 1999-03-30
