Southern Oscillation
nounDefinition of Southern Oscillation
: a periodic seesaw fluctuation in sea-level atmospheric pressures over the southern Pacific and Indian oceans that is believed to be linked to El Niño and La Niña events — compare arctic oscillation, north atlantic oscillation
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