
El
Niño and La Niña
Sea surface temperatures over the tropical Pacific were slightly below normal in the past three months. Climate model predictions indicate that normal conditions over the tropical Pacific will gradually return in spring 2009.
(Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA)
Figure 1. Sea surface temperature
anomalies of February 2009 in degree Celsius.
(Next update in the later half of June 2009)
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