Independent Variables (Grids)

Time

grid: /T (months since 1960-01-01) ordered (16 Jan 1856 - 15 Feb 1856) to (16 Jun 2014 - 15 Jul 2014) by 1.0 N= 1902 pts :grid

Other Info

bufferwordsize

8

CE

null

colorscalename

sstacolorscale

CS

null

datatype

doublearraytype

file_missing_value

1.00000002E30

iridl:hasSemantics

iridl:Nino3.4

maxncolor

254

units

degree_Celsius

standard units*

degree_Kelvin

history

detrended-bfl [ Indices nino EXTENDED NINO34 ]

OS extended by NCEP\0$G 
$integral dY$ [ ( $integral dX$ { KAPLAN EXTENDED v2 ssta } { 120W - 170W } ) / ( $integral dX$ dataflag { KAPLAN EXTENDED v2 ssta } { 120W - 170W } ) ] [ 5N - 5S ]

References

Kaplan, A., M. Cane, Y. Kushnir, A. Clement, M. Blumenthal, and B. Rajagopalan, Analyses of global sea surface temperature 1856-1991, Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 18,567-18,589, 1998

Reynolds, R.W., N.A. Rayner, T.M. Smith, D.C. Stokes, and W. Wang, 2002: An Improved In Situ and Satellite SST Analysis for Climate. J. Climate, 15, 1609-1625.

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