El Niño: Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly and Sea Surface Height Anomaly from Sept. 1996 to Sept. 1997

  • Released Monday, September 8, 1997
View full credits

Sea surface height anomaly is presented as topography and sea surface temperature anomaly as color. A similar visualization (item #1415) presents this same data and includes a pan from the front view to a side view.

NCEP sea surface temperature anomaly and TOPEX-Poseidon altimeter sea level anomaly in the Pacific from September 1996 to September 1997.

Video slate image reads "NCEP sea surface temperature anomaly(Color)TOPEX-Poseidon altimeter sea level anomalyCourtesy of B. Cheney(Surface Topography)20°N - 20°S, 120°E - 70°W September 15, 1996 -September 20, 1997 (SST)September 15, 1996 - September 21, 1997 (TOPEX SL)For SST, anomalies are formed with respect to the long term (1950-79) mean annual cycle. For TOPEX SL, anomalies are formed with respect to the long term (Oct. 3, 1992 - May 15, 1997) mean geoid."

Video slate image reads "NCEP sea surface temperature anomaly
(Color)
TOPEX-Poseidon altimeter sea level anomaly
Courtesy of B. Cheney
(Surface Topography)
20°N - 20°S, 120°E - 70°W
September 15, 1996 -September 20, 1997 (SST)
September 15, 1996 - September 21, 1997 (TOPEX SL)
For SST, anomalies are formed with respect to the long term (1950-79) mean annual cycle. For TOPEX SL, anomalies are formed with respect to the long term (Oct. 3, 1992 - May 15, 1997) mean geoid."

Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio

Series

This page can be found in the following series:

Datasets used

Note: While we identify the data sets used on this page, we do not store any further details, nor the data sets themselves on our site.

This page was originally published on Monday, September 8, 1997.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 2:00 PM EDT.