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What does the term 'El Niño' primarily refer to in meteorology?
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- 1The periodic warming of sea surface temperatures in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific✓
- 2An unusual cooling of sea surface waters along the equatorial Pacific ocean
- 3A persistent high-pressure atmospheric belt over the Indian Ocean
- 4An intense low-pressure cyclonic vortex in the North Atlantic
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The periodic warming of sea surface temperatures in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific
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