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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

APRIL 2010

  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
APR 10 0.6 26.1 0.7 28.7 0.7 28.4 0.8 29.2 1.4 27.2 0.8 27.6 0.7 29.1
MAR 10 -0.2 26.2 0.7 27.7 1.1 28.3 1.1 29.2 1.3 26.8 1.0 27.9 0.7 28.8
FEB 10 0.0 26.0 0.7 27.1 1.2 27.9 1.1 29.1 1.0 26.5 0.6 27.0 0.6 28.3
JAN 10 0.2 24.7 1.0 26.6 1.6 28.1 1.4 29.6 0.7 26.5 0.7 26.2 0.7 28.2
DEC 09 0.3 23.1 1.6 26.7 1.8 28.3 1.4 29.7 0.5 27.1 0.5 25.1 0.7 28.2
NOV 09 0.5 22.1 1.3 26.2 1.7 28.2 1.5 29.9 0.5 27.9 0.2 24.1 0.6 28.1
OCT 09 0.0 20.9 0.8 25.7 1.0 27.6 1.2 29.6 0.6 28.5 0.3 23.6 0.5 27.8
SEP 09 0.3 20.8 0.8 25.7 0.8 27.5 0.8 29.3 0.5 28.4 0.2 23.2 0.5 27.6
AUG 09 0.8 21.6 1.0 25.9 0.8 27.5 0.8 29.2 0.3 27.9 0.2 23.2 0.5 27.5
JUL 09 0.9 22.7 1.0 26.6 0.9 28.0 0.6 29.2 0.3 27.3 0.3 24.0 0.5 27.8
JUN 09 0.7 23.7 0.7 27.1 0.6 28.1 0.6 29.2 -0.1 26.6 0.5 25.3 0.5 28.3
MAY 09 0.6 24.9 0.4 27.4 0.3 28.0 0.3 29.0 -0.2 26.0 0.9 26.9 0.4 28.7
APR 09 0.5 26.0 0.0 27.4 -0.2 27.5 0.0 28.4 0.1 25.8 0.7 27.5 0.2 28.6

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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