Monthly Climate Timeseries:
Tropical Western Hemisphere warm pool WHWP (WHWP)/center>

Description:
Monthly anomaly of the ocean surface area Ocean region that is greater than 28.5C in the Atlantic and eastern North Pacific. Climatology is area for 1951-2000.
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Timeseries Plot:
Select this link to get a plot. Plot is taken from the Timesseries Plotting and Analysis webpage.
Calculation Method:
HadSST used until end of that timeseries. NOAA OI used after that until present. Both SST datasets are 1x1. Monthly anomaly of the ocean surface area Ocean region >28.5C in the Atlantic and eastern North Pacific based on 1951-2000 climatology.Anomalies are area weighted.
Time Interval: Monthly
Time Coverage: 1948-present
Update Status: Monthly

Get Data:
WHWP.: Standard PSL Format (What is standard format?)
Source:
Data is from the NOAA/ESRL PSL
References:
  1. Wang, C., and D.B. Enfield, 2001 : The tropical Western Hemisphere warm pool, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 1635-1638.