Extratropical Highlights

  Table of Indices  (Table 3)

  Global Surface Temperature  E1

  Temperature Anomalies (Land Only)  E2

  Global Precipitation  E3

  Regional Precip Estimates (a)  E4

  Regional Precip Estimates (b)  E5

  U.S. Precipitation  E6

  Northern Hemisphere

• Teleconnection Indices  E7
  
• SLP  E8
  
• 500-hPa Heights  E9
  
• 300-hPa Wind Vectors  E10
  
• 500-hPa Persistence  E11
  
• 500-hPa Heights Anom  E12
  
• 700-hPa Storm Track  E13
  

  Southern Hemisphere

  Stratosphere

  Appendix 2: Additional Figures

OCTOBER 2009

FIGURE E13.  Northern Hemisphere 500-hPa heights (thick contours, interval is 6 dam) overlaid with (Top) Standard deviation of 10-day high-pass (HP) filtered height anomalies and (Bottom) Normalized anomalous variance of 10-day HP filtered height anomalies. A Lanczos filter is used to calculate the HP filtered anomalies. Anomalies are departures from the 1979-2000 daily means.