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Tropical Highlights - October 2005

 

     

The pattern of global tropical sea surface temperature (SST) during October featured near-average SSTs everywhere, except negative anomalies in the eastern tropical Pacific (Fig. T18, Table T2). The overall patterns of convection, SSTs, low-level winds and upper-level winds remained near average over the central and eastern tropical Pacific during October 2005 (Figs. T18, T20, T21 and T25), which is consistent with ENSO-neutral conditions. 

The oceanic thermocline, measured by the depth of the 20°C isotherm along the equator, featured near-average depth in the central Pacific and slightly shallower-than-average depth in the eastern Pacific during October (Figs. T15, T16). Consistent with these conditions, equatorial oceanic temperatures at thermocline depth were near average throughout most of the Pacific and 1-2 oC below average in the eastern Pacific (Fig. T17). The Tahiti - Darwin SOI (Table T1, Fig. T1) was 1.1 during October, due to lower-than-average pressure over Darwin and higher-than-average pressure over Tahiti .

During October, negative OLR anomalies (above-average rainfall amounts) were observed over India , the eastern equatorial Indian Ocean and the North Atlantic/Caribbean Sea (Figs. T25, T26 and E3), the latter was consistent with the very active Atlantic hurricane season.

 


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