Darwin air pressure (bottom) and rainfall at central Pacific islands (top). Air pressure at Tahiti is the mirror image of air pressure at Darwin. Occurrences of high Darwin air pressure and high central Pacific rainfall (arrows) are called ENSO events. From Tomczak and Godfrey, Regional Oceanography: an Introduction, Pergamon, New York (1994), 422 pp.

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