Tropical Highlights

  Table of Atmospheric Indices  (Table 1)

  Table of Oceanic Indices  (Table 2)

  Time Series

  Time-Longitude Sections

  Mean & Anomaly Fields

• Depth of the 20C Isotherm  T16
  
• Subsurface Eq. Pacific Temp  T17
  
• Sea Surface Temperature  T18
  
• Sea Level Pressure  T19
  
• 850-hPa Vector Wind  T20
  
• 200-hPa Vector Wind  T21
  
• 200-hPa Streamfunction  T22
  
• 200-hPa Divergence  T23
  
• 200-hPa VPOT & Div Wind  T24
  
• OLR  T25
  
• SSM/I Tropical Precipitation  T26
  
• Cloud Liquid Water  T27
  
• Precipitable Water  T28
  
• E-W Divergent Circulation  T29
  
• W-E Divergent Circulation  T30
  
• Pacific Zonal Wind (a)  T31
  
• Pacific Zonal Wind (b)  T32
  

  Appendix 1: Outside Contributions

SEPTEMBER 2012

FIGURE T19.  Mean (top) and anomalous (bottom) sea level pressure (SLP) (CDAS/Reanalysis). In top panel, 1000 hPa has been subtracted from contour labels, contour interval is 2 hPa, and values below 1000 hPa are indicated by dashed contours. In bottom panel, anomaly contour interval is 1 hPa and negative anomalies are indicated by dashed contours. Anomalies are departures from the 1981-2010 base period monthly means.