Sea-Surface Temperature Anomalies: El Niño
OceansPhysical EnvironmentA composite of sea-surface temperature anomalies during El Niño from November to March during the following years: 1958, 1966, 1973, 1983, 1987, 1992, 1996, and 1998. When sea-surface temperatures in the tropical eastern Pacific rise well above normal, it is known as an El Niño event.
NOAASea-surface temperature anomalies during El Niño. The most intense warming (2 to 2.25 degrees Celsius, dark brown) occurs off the coast of South America. Cooler areas (negative 2.25 to negative 2 degrees Celsius, dark blue) are in the Arctic Ocean.
-0.25 to 0.25 | 0.75 to 1.0 | 1.0 to 1.25 | 1.25 to 1.5 | 1.5 to 1.75 | Wind erosion | Water erosion | |
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Alaska | 0.318% | ||||||
Florida | 0.596% | ||||||
Rhode Island | 4.64% | ||||||
Nunavut | 0.352% | ||||||
Maine | 0.133% | ||||||
Nova Scotia | 0.847% | ||||||
Delaware | 0.762% | ||||||
Prince Edward Island | 1.25% | 0.264% | |||||
North Carolina | 0.319% | ||||||
New Brunswick | 0.522% | ||||||
British Columbia | 0.126% | ||||||
Newfoundland and Labrador | 0.392% | ||||||
New Jersey | 0.329% | ||||||
Massachusetts | 1.78% | ||||||
New York | 0.105% | ||||||
Arizona | 4.22% | ||||||
Utah | 0.308% | ||||||
Idaho | 3.94% | ||||||
Washington | 0.513% | 36.9% | |||||
Wyoming | 6.47% | 2.84% | |||||
Montana | 17.8% | ||||||
North Dakota | 95.1% | 0.109% | |||||
Kentucky | 5.48% | ||||||
Virginia | 0.126% | 7.05% | |||||
Saskatchewan | 12.1% | ||||||
Mississippi | 21.9% | ||||||
West Virginia | 11.5% | ||||||
Nebraska | 0.826% | 52.2% | |||||
Texas | 0.183% | 23.3% | 0.427% | ||||
Missouri | 60.6% | ||||||
Louisiana | 0.184% | 1.69% | |||||
Hawaii | 1.74% | 1.20% | 0.113% | 0.444% | 2.10% | 57.1% | |
Oregon | 5.56% | ||||||
Alabama | 7.26% | ||||||
New Mexico | 67.8% | ||||||
Kansas | 12.3% | 62.5% | |||||
Wisconsin | 43.5% | ||||||
Michigan | 1.12% | ||||||
Alberta | 4.93% | ||||||
Pennsylvania | 25.9% | ||||||
Colorado | 30.2% | 6.74% | |||||
Nevada | 11.8% | ||||||
Maryland | 0.874% | 5.23% | |||||
Manitoba | 6.10% | ||||||
Oklahoma | 29.4% | 17.9% | |||||
Tennessee | 12.6% | ||||||
Ontario | 2.00% | ||||||
California | 0.110% | 19.7% | 24.3% | ||||
Arkansas | 4.12% | ||||||
South Dakota | 48.9% | 18.4% | |||||
Ohio | 4.56% | ||||||
Indiana | 12.0% | ||||||
Minnesota | 9.96% | 35.6% | |||||
Iowa | 100% | ||||||
Illinois | 84.6% |
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