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*********ENSO 97-98: CURRENT REPORTS ON EVENTS**************

El Nino/Southern Oscillation Report 8, 25 October 1997, is available at
http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~sustain/ENSO.html or by request from
afdcd1 [at] uaa.alaska.edu

(warning: these files can be large, the current one is 40 K)

Events in the current report include:

2 OCTOBER. BRAZIL: AMAZON FIRES

13 OCTOBER 1997. WORLD: HISTORICAL IMPACTS

13 OCTOBER. NORTH PACIFIC: CLIMATE

15 OCTOBER 1997. MEXICO: CHOLERA

18 OCTOBER 1997. CALIFORNIA: SEABIRDS

20 OCTOBER. PANAMA: CLIMATE

20 OCTOBER. CZECH REPUBLIC: FLOODS

20 OCTOBER. LOUISIANA: LIVESTOCK

21 OCTOBER 1997. CALIFORNIA: WHALES

22 OCTOBER 1977. INDONESIA: FIRE

23 OCTOBER 1997. CALIFORNIA: ECONOMIC IMPACT

24 OCTOBER 1997. ALASKA: CLIMATE & OCEANOGRAPHY

************************** We would appreciate additional reports as El
Nino will soon be beginning the period when its normal effects can be
expected. Casual observations of unusual climatic, biological,
meteorological or human effects (even if their links to the current ENSO
event are tenuous) may be extremely useful as we have never had an
opprtunity to observe an ENSO so closely before.

Reports of epidemic disease outbreaks (human or livestock) should also
be sent to ProMED-mail promed [at] usa.healthnet.org.


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