ENSO Cycle Sea Surface Warming

ENSO Cycle Sea Surface Cooling

May 1982 - April 1983

Mar. 1987 - Feb.1988

Mar. 1985 - Feb. 1986

May 1988 - April 1989

Region

(+) ve NDVI

(-) ve NDVI

(+) ve NDVI

(-) ve NDVI

(+) ve NDVI

(-) ve NDVI

(+) ve NDVI

(-) ve NDVI

Anomalies

Anomalies

Anomalies

Anomalies

Anomalies

Anomalies

Anomalies

Anomalies

Northeastern Brazil

83,200

498,600

75,000

360,700

1,001,700

26,500

557,000

82,600

Southeastern S. America

485,100

144,300

406,200

285,200

996,600

105,200

16,500

1,665,800

Eastern Australia

1,000

1,743,500

106,400

499,100

173,100

744,400

201,300

549,900

Central Australia

62,500

39,700

67,800

313,400

16,800

670,400

256,800

307,300

Eastern Africa and Horn

555,200

4,900

245,900

260,200

73,300

83,700

20,900

100,300

Southeastern Africa

34,800

391,000

137,500

170,900

373,900

8,600

72,900

25,700

Central Southern Africa

125,600

60,700

34,200

212,300

93,400

406,800

759,800

19,500

Table 9.1

Areas of Africa, Australia and South America where linked tropical Pacific SST and NDVI anomalies were determined from 1982 to 1990. The areas in this table are the areas where time series correlation coefficients are greater than /0.5/ and where the cumulative twelve month NDVI anomaly was greater that 0.3 or less than -0.3.


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