Which effect increases in global coastal areas as the frequency of El Niño events rises?

💡 Explanation

When El Niño events increase, changes disrupt normal wind and ocean current patterns, leading to reduced rainfall in some coastal regions and increased sea levels due to thermal expansion, which increases hydrostatic pressure. Therefore saltwater intrusion risk rises, rather than upwelling, forest expansion, or isolated bleaching episodes which show different, often indirectly linked, causal patterns.

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