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 | Tropical Forests | Salt Marshes | Equatorial | Tropical | Subtropical | Temperate | Subpolar | |
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New Hampshire | 1.37% | |||||||||||
Mississippi | 0.461% | |||||||||||
South Carolina | 6.81% | |||||||||||
Georgia | 2.72% | |||||||||||
Alaska | 0.318% | 2.05% | 0.827% | |||||||||
Northwest Territories | 1.67% | |||||||||||
Florida | 0.596% | 1.15% | 1.33% | 2.09% | ||||||||
Rhode Island | 4.64% | 2.01% | 8.19% | |||||||||
Washington | 0.513% | 0.132% | 0.763% | |||||||||
Nunavut | 0.352% | 4.30% | ||||||||||
Maine | 0.133% | 0.322% | 1.22% | |||||||||
Nova Scotia | 0.847% | 0.591% | 8.68% | |||||||||
Virginia | 0.126% | 0.493% | 0.104% | 1.74% | ||||||||
Delaware | 0.762% | 33.7% | 4.66% | |||||||||
Prince Edward Island | 1.25% | 0.264% | 1.22% | 54.8% | ||||||||
Texas | 0.183% | 0.123% | 0.188% | |||||||||
Louisiana | 0.184% | 0.106% | 3.62% | |||||||||
Hawaii | 1.74% | 1.20% | 0.113% | 0.444% | 2.10% | 2.56% | 35.3% | |||||
North Carolina | 0.319% | 0.191% | 2.25% | |||||||||
Oregon | 0.245% | |||||||||||
New Brunswick | 0.522% | 0.488% | 2.16% | |||||||||
Alabama | 0.174% | 0.128% | ||||||||||
British Columbia | 0.126% | 0.160% | 1.39% | |||||||||
Newfoundland and Labrador | 0.392% | 1.85% | 0.552% | |||||||||
New Jersey | 0.329% | 15.3% | 3.26% | |||||||||
Connecticut | 0.797% | 0.661% | ||||||||||
Massachusetts | 1.78% | 3.30% | 0.220% | 7.89% | ||||||||
New York | 0.105% | 0.102% | 1.81% | |||||||||
Maryland | 0.874% | 0.178% | 3.11% | |||||||||
Québec | 0.264% | 0.352% | ||||||||||
Ontario | 0.107% | |||||||||||
California | 0.110% | 0.156% | 0.550% | 0.247% |
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