Synopsis
Iain Stewart explains the causes and impacts of the warmer waters created by the El Niño effect.
- Programme: Journeys into the Ring of Fire
- Series: 1
- Episode: 03: Peru
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2006
- Geography | Natural hazards | Tropical storms | Formation of a tropical storm
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