The Lingering Effects of the 1997/98 El Nino

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A New Film

UPDATE - I removed the Blogger version of the video and imbedded the YouTube version.
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This film, my second, presents observations about the lingering effects of the 1997/98 El Nino. Its backbone is the animation of Global Sea Surface Height available from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory:
http://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/videos-ssh-movies.html
Specifically, It Was Edited From:
http://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/tiffs/backup/videos/tpj1global.mpeg

It uses that animation and graphs of OI.v2 SST data to illustrate the cause of much of the “Record” warming since 1996, which was a result of the long-lasting impacts of the 1997/98 El Nino on the East Indian and West Pacific Oceans. The reoccurring comparative graphs include:
-Scaled NINO3.4 SST Anomaly, used as reference for timing, and
-East Indian and West Pacific Ocean SST Anomalies.

It ends with comparative graphs of:
-NINO3.4 SST Anomalies VERSUS East Pacific, Atlantic, West Indian Ocean SST Anomalies,
-East Indian and West Pacific Ocean SST Anomalies VERSUS East Pacific, Atlantic, West Indian Ocean SST Anomalies,
-Those Two Data Sets VERSUS Global SST (60S to 65N), and
-Global SST Anomalies VERSUS Global Combined (Land+Sea) Surface Temperature Anomalies.

Copies of the graphs with TinyPic links are below.

The video is presented here in a smaller format than I’d prefer, so I’ve also provided a link to a YouTube copy. It’s larger and can be expanded to full screen. The video is just under 5 minutes in length. It’s longer than I originally planned. And because of its length, I had to shorten the time that some of the narrative remained on screen. Please stop and start, rewind, etc., as needed.

VIDEO


YouTube Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uv4Xc4D0Dk

The reoccurring graph was the comparative graph of NINO3.4 SST anomalies and SST anomalies for the East Indian and West Pacific Oceans, Figure 1.
http://i41.tinypic.com/m8hf7p.jpg
Figure 1

The second graph was a comparative graph of NINO3.4 SST anomalies and SST anomalies for the East Pacific, Atlantic, and West Indian Oceans, Figure 2.
http://i43.tinypic.com/29zegsp.jpg
Figure 2

The third graph was also a comparative graph. Figure 3 illustrated SST anomalies for the East Indian and West Pacific Oceans and SST anomalies for the East Pacific, Atlantic and West Indian Oceans.
http://i41.tinypic.com/27xqgt4.jpg
Figure 3

Figure 4 illustrated Global SST anomalies, and SST anomalies for the East Indian and West Pacific Oceans, and SST anomalies for the East Pacific, Atlantic and West Indian Oceans.
http://i44.tinypic.com/674ks8.jpg
Figure 4

And last, Figure 5 compared Global SST anomalies and Global Combined (Land PLUS Sea) Surface Temperature Anomalies, actually the Temperature of the Lower Tropospheric (TLT) from MSU AHU.
http://i39.tinypic.com/vxbue.jpg
Figure 5

SOURCE

The NOAA Optimal Interpolated SST Analysis (OI.v2) Data is also available online through the NOAA National Operational Model Archive & Distribution System (NOMADS).
Overview:
http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/research/cmb/sst_analysis/
Instructions for Downloading:
http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/research/cmb/sst_analysis/OISST_ts.txt

Global Temperature (Temperature of the Lower Troposphere) anomaly data is available through the National Space Science & Technology Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville website, specifically:
http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/t2lt/uahncdc.lt