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El Niño Indices | Maps of Sea Surface Temperatures (SST)
Maps of Outgoing Longwave Radiation(OLR) | Combined SST/OLR Animations | Precipitation

El Niño Indices

Combined Variable El Niño index:

  • Most recent plots of index
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Southern Oscillation Index:

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Sea Surface Temperature Timeseries:

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  • Table of recent SST's for various tropical Pacific regions (from the Climate Prediction Center)

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