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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

AUGUST 2013

  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
AUG 13 -1.0 19.7 -0.6 24.4 -0.3 26.5 0.0 28.7 0.3 28.1 0.1 23.2 0.0 27.2
JUL 13 -1.3 20.3 -0.7 25.0 -0.3 26.9 0.0 28.8 0.2 27.4 0.0 23.7 -0.1 27.4
JUN 13 -1.4 21.5 -0.6 25.8 -0.2 27.4 -0.1 28.8 0.3 27.0 0.0 25.0 -0.1 27.9
MAY 13 -1.4 22.9 -0.7 26.4 -0.3 27.6 -0.1 28.7 0.5 26.8 0.2 26.4 -0.1 28.5
APR 13 -0.9 24.7 -0.2 27.4 -0.1 27.7 0.0 28.5 0.4 26.3 0.1 27.1 0.1 28.8
MAR 13 0.1 26.7 0.1 27.2 -0.2 27.0 -0.2 28.0 0.5 26.1 -0.1 27.0 0.1 28.4
FEB 13 -0.4 25.7 -0.5 25.9 -0.4 26.3 0.0 28.1 0.3 25.8 -0.1 26.5 0.1 28.0
JAN 13 -0.5 24.0 -0.6 25.1 -0.4 26.2 0.0 28.3 0.4 26.3 0.1 25.7 0.1 27.8
DEC 12 -0.9 22.0 -0.2 24.9 -0.1 26.5 0.3 28.7 0.7 27.5 -0.2 24.6 0.2 27.8
NOV 12 -0.4 21.2 0.1 25.1 0.4 27.0 0.5 29.2 0.7 28.3 -0.3 23.7 0.2 27.7
OCT 12 -0.1 20.7 0.0 24.9 0.3 27.0 0.5 29.2 0.4 28.5 -0.4 23.0 0.2 27.6
SEP 12 0.5 20.8 0.4 25.3 0.5 27.2 0.4 29.1 0.4 28.5 -0.3 22.7 0.2 27.4
AUG 12 0.4 21.0 0.7 25.7 0.7 27.6 0.4 29.1 0.2 28.0 -0.3 22.8 0.2 27.4

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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