DISCLAIMER: Please note these pages present experimental analyses developed by researchers at CICS-NC and/or of interest to the CICS-NC community and their collaborators. These analyses are subject to change as our understanding of the Earth's climate system improves and/or our interests change. There is no guarantee on their future availability.
CICS-NC: Tropical-Extratropical Interactions
NOTICE: The data used to update this website is currently unavailable due to the lapse in FY14 appropriations. For details, see governmentshutdown.noaa.gov
This is a new experimental page for tracking the interactions between tropics
and extratropics.
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Map of the Multivariate PNA (MVP):
Contours identify the EOF loading pattern for OLR and streamfunction
while the shading shows the observed anomalies.
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Multivariate PNA (MVP) Time Series
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Maps of recent OLR anomalies (shaded), 200-hPa streamfunction
anomalies (contours), and 200-hPa total zonal wind (black contour at
50 m/s)
