Tropical Southern Atlantic Index (TSA)

Measure of variability of the southern tropical Atlantic ocean.

Correlation TSA with SST

Timeseries TSA WRIT

Description and Specifications

Description

Anomaly of the average of the monthly SST from Eq-20S and 10E-30W. HadISST and NOAA OI 1x1 datasets are used to create index. Climatology is 1971-2000.

Temporal Coverage

1948 to near present

Data Notes

Units: C

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Time-series List

TSAtsa : Standard PSL Format, CSV, and NetCDF (What is standard format?)

Source, citation and related Information.

Related Time-series

TNA

Links

AOML PMEL

Original Source

NOAA/PSL

Time-series source dataset(s)

HadiSST1.1

Citation

Enfield, D.B., A.M. Mestas, D.A. Mayer, and L. Cid-Serrano, 1999: How ubiquitous is the dipole relationship in tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures? JGR-O, 104, 7841-7848.

References

Enfield, D.B., A.M. Mestas, D.A. Mayer, and L. Cid-Serrano, 1999: How ubiquitous is the dipole relationship in tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures? JGR-O, 104, 7841-7848.
Wang, C., and D.B. Enfield, 2001 : The tropical Western Hemisphere warm pool, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 1635-1638.