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El Niño Sea Surface Temperatures
a look at the El Niño event from 1982-83
An El Niño event is identified by
warmer than normal sea surface temperatures (SSTs).
An SST anomaly plot, like the one given below, shows
the difference between the observed SSTs
and the normal SSTs for a given month. This particular plot depicts the
SST anomaly from December of 1982.
Image by: Liu
The yellow and red shadings of the eastern Pacific indicate that the waters
were considerably warmer than normal.
In fact, the El Niño event
of 1982-83 was the strongest this century,
with an SST anomaly exceeding 3.5 degrees Celsius.
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