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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

JANUARY 2021

  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
JAN 21 -0.8 23.7 -0.7 25.0 -1.1 25.5 -1.2 27.1 0.7 26.7 -0.1 25.5 -0.3 27.4
DEC 20 -0.7 22.2 -0.8 24.4 -1.0 25.5 -0.8 27.7 0.5 27.3 -0.4 24.3 -0.1 27.6
NOV 20 -0.7 20.9 -1.2 23.8 -1.3 25.3 -0.7 27.9 0.3 27.9 -0.2 23.7 -0.1 27.6
OCT 20 -1.2 19.6 -1.3 23.6 -1.4 25.3 -0.8 27.9 0.3 28.4 -0.1 23.2 -0.1 27.4
SEP 20 -0.9 19.5 -1.3 23.6 -1.0 25.8 -0.4 28.3 0.3 28.4 -0.1 22.9 0.0 27.2
AUG 20 -0.9 19.7 -0.5 24.5 -0.6 26.2 -0.2 28.5 0.4 28.2 0.3 23.4 0.2 27.4
JUL 20 -1.2 20.5 -0.5 25.1 -0.3 26.9 0.1 28.9 0.5 27.8 0.0 23.8 0.2 27.7
JUN 20 -0.7 22.1 -0.7 25.8 -0.4 27.3 0.2 29.1 0.6 27.3 0.4 25.3 0.3 28.3
MAY 20 0.1 24.4 -0.2 26.9 -0.2 27.6 0.2 29.0 0.2 26.6 0.7 26.9 0.4 28.9
APR 20 0.4 26.0 0.5 28.0 0.5 28.3 0.8 29.3 0.4 26.4 0.2 27.2 0.5 29.1
MAR 20 0.5 27.1 0.3 27.4 0.6 27.8 1.0 29.2 0.6 26.2 0.7 27.8 0.6 28.9
FEB 20 0.3 26.5 0.2 26.6 0.4 27.1 1.1 29.2 0.4 25.9 0.5 27.0 0.5 28.4
JAN 20 0.0 24.5 0.2 25.8 0.5 27.1 1.0 29.3 0.2 26.2 1.2 26.8 0.6 28.2

TABLE 2.  Mean and anomalous sea surface temperature (C) for the most recent 12 months. Anomalies are departures from the 1981-2010 adjusted OI climatology (Smith and Reynolds 1998, J. Climate, 11,3320-3323).


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