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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

MARCH 2012

  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
MAR 12 0.3 26.9 -0.2 26.9 -0.6 26.6 -0.7 27.5 -0.3 25.3 -0.4 26.8 -0.3 28.0
FEB 12 0.2 26.3 -0.2 26.2 -0.7 26.0 -0.9 27.2 0.0 25.6 -0.7 25.9 -0.2 27.7
JAN 12 -0.8 23.7 -0.8 24.8 -1.1 25.5 -1.2 27.1 0.2 26.2 -0.9 24.7 -0.3 27.3
DEC 11 -1.1 21.8 -1.0 24.2 -1.0 25.5 -1.1 27.4 0.4 27.2 -0.8 24.0 -0.3 27.4
NOV 11 -0.8 20.8 -1.1 23.9 -1.1 25.6 -0.8 27.9 0.2 27.8 -0.2 23.7 -0.2 27.5
OCT 11 -0.6 20.2 -1.0 24.0 -1.0 25.7 -0.7 27.9 0.2 28.3 0.0 23.4 -0.2 27.3
SEP 11 -0.6 19.7 -0.6 24.2 -0.7 26.0 -0.6 28.1 0.3 28.4 0.0 23.0 -0.2 27.1
AUG 11 0.0 20.6 -0.4 24.6 -0.6 26.2 -0.4 28.3 0.5 28.2 0.2 23.2 -0.1 27.1
JUL 11 0.5 22.1 0.1 25.7 -0.2 27.0 -0.3 28.5 0.4 27.7 0.2 23.9 0.0 27.5
JUN 11 0.9 23.8 0.1 26.6 -0.2 27.5 -0.4 28.5 0.8 27.6 0.0 25.0 0.0 28.0
MAY 11 0.8 25.0 -0.1 27.0 -0.5 27.4 -0.5 28.3 0.5 26.9 0.4 26.6 -0.1 28.4
APR 11 0.2 25.8 -0.3 27.2 -0.8 27.0 -0.7 27.9 0.4 26.4 0.5 27.6 -0.2 28.4
MAR 11 -0.4 26.2 -0.8 26.4 -1.0 26.2 -0.8 27.4 0.4 26.0 0.5 27.6 -0.2 28.0

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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