Item Detail
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32661
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English
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Lehi and El Nino: A Method of Migration
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BYU Studies Quarterly
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1990
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30
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3
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Provo, UT
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Brigham Young University
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57-65
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This article uses knowledge of wind, ocean current, and weather patterns to draw conclusions about Lehi's ocean voyage. "If the migration scenario enhanced by atmospheric and oceanographic effects is valid, we can even go a step further in interpretive speculation concerning the Lehi voyage. Lehi probably sailed from the Arabian Peninsula during August of an ENSO year, the time not only of the optimum northeast monsoon circulation but also of the growing season when 'fruits and meat and honey in abundance' could be gathered and loaded on board. Lehi would then have had a reasonable expectation of arriving in the Indonesian area in time to catch an ENSO-intensified Equatorial Counter Current. The El Nino-driven current could have delivered Lehi's group to the west coast of Central America in a much more probable manner than could have been employed during a non-ENSO year. In fact, if an El Nino of about twenty-five hundred years ago was not used for migration, Lehi missed a marvelous opportunity." [Author]
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https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4009&context=byusq