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  Tropical Highlights

  Table of Atmospheric Indices  (Table 1)

  Table of Oceanic Indices  (Table 2)

  Time Series

  Time-Longitude Sections

  Mean & Anomaly Fields

  Appendix 1: Outside Contributions

Table of Oceanic Indices

MARCH 2009

  PACIFIC SST ATLANTIC SST Global
  NINO 1+2 NINO 3 NINO 3.4 NIN0 4 N. ATL S. ATL TROPICS
MONTH 0-10S 5N-5S 5N-5S 5N-5S 5N-20N 0-20S 10N-10S
  90W-80W 150W-90W 170W-120W 160E-150W 60W-30W 30W-10E 0W-360W
MAR 09 -0.1 26.4 -0.6 26.4 -0.5 26.7 -0.3 27.8 0.0 25.4 0.6 27.5 0.0 28.2
FEB 09 -0.1 26.0 -0.6 25.8 -0.7 26.0 -0.7 27.4 0.0 25.4 0.3 26.7 0.0 27.7
JAN 09 -0.2 24.3 -0.6 25.0 -1.0 25.5 -0.7 27.4 0.4 26.3 0.3 25.7 0.0 27.5
DEC 08 -0.4 22.4 -0.5 24.6 -0.7 25.7 -0.6 27.7 0.6 27.2 0.4 24.9 0.1 27.5
NOV 08 -0.2 21.5 -0.2 24.8 -0.2 26.3 -0.3 28.1 0.6 28.0 0.1 24.0 0.1 27.6
OCT 08 -0.2 20.8 -0.1 24.8 -0.3 26.3 -0.1 28.3 0.7 28.6 0.2 23.5 0.2 27.5
SEP 08 0.7 21.2 0.3 25.1 -0.2 26.5 -0.4 28.1 0.7 28.6 0.2 23.1 0.2 27.3
AUG 08 1.1 21.9 0.7 25.7 0.2 26.9 -0.3 28.2 0.5 28.0 0.5 23.5 0.2 27.3
JUL 08 0.8 22.7 0.6 26.1 0.1 27.2 -0.3 28.3 0.3 27.4 0.6 24.2 0.1 27.4
JUN 08 0.6 23.7 0.2 26.6 -0.3 27.2 -0.6 28.1 0.2 26.8 0.7 25.5 0.0 27.9
MAY 08 0.1 24.4 0.0 27.1 -0.6 27.2 -0.8 27.9 0.0 26.3 0.9 26.9 -0.1 28.3
APR 08 0.4 25.9 -0.2 27.2 -0.9 26.8 -1.0 27.4 -0.1 25.7 0.7 27.5 -0.2 28.3
MAR 08 0.8 27.3 -0.6 26.5 -1.1 26.0 -1.3 26.8 0.0 25.5 0.7 27.6 -0.2 27.9

TABLE 2.  Mean and anomalous sea surface temperature (C) for the most recent 12 months. Anomalies are departures from the 1971-2000 adjusted OI climatology (Smith and Reynolds 1998, J. Climate, 11,3320-3323).


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