ENSO Links for GES 41L

There's TONS of stuff out there on El Niño and La Niña - just for fun, try searching for El Niño on Excite, Alta Vista, or any of the other search engines

Let's start with NOAA (National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration) sites. NOAA has stuff all over the place, including at least seven subdivision that are relevant to El Niño:

• The Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL)
• El Niño Site - you'll be referred to this one frequently by the other sites.
• The Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC)
• The Climate Prediction Center (CPC)
• The Coastal Services Center (CSC)
• The National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
• The Office of Global Programs (OGP)

The first four are especially interesting. The "El Niño site" is packed with information and other links. The CDC and CPC both develop forecasting models.   PMEL shows you how a lot of the physical data regarding El Niño is collected, using the trans-pacific Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) array. They have good El Niño material in general. It's one of my favorite sites.

You can also check out some sites that we found interesting for class last year.

• El Niño/Southern Oscillation Education Resources
• ENSO Animation
• Multivariate ENSO Index
• SST Animation
• 1998 Texas Drought
• Satellite Imagery from NOAA/CSC CRS (AVHRR)
• El Niño animations
• NOAA Paleoclimatology Program - Homepage
• NOAA/PMEL/TAO 1997 - 1999 El Niño, La Niña and Climate Info
• NOAA/PMEL/TAO El Niño & La Niña Predictions and Forecasts
• NOAA/PMEL/TAO El Niño Impacts
• NOAA/PMEL Realtime TAO Buoy Data Display
• NOAA/OGP El Niño-Southern Oscillation Page
• Status of the Current El Niño
• El Niño Update

We'll continue with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory site, located at Columbia. Of particular interest is their data library, a large cataloged repository of all kinds of oceanographic and atmospheric data sets. Our TA, Harry Rowe, can show us all sorts of things to do here.

You might also be asked to experiment with making your own correlation maps using the CDC site on Monthly Correlations. Here you can see for yourself how the Southern Oscillation Index may (or may not) be related to things like rainfall and temperature all over the globe......

Other data display and analysis tools are available at another CDC site.

You might notice in our syllabus that we are planning a field trip to Monterey Bay. We'll probably visit MBARI, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Monterey is also home to the Fleet Numerical Marine and Oceanography Center (FNMOC). They have some good  ENSO stuff, as well as daily satellite-based SST and SST anomaly maps. Monterey is home to the Monterey Bay Ocean Consortium and the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. We'll probably visit Año Nuevo State Reserve. Check out their "seal cam".

Now for IRI links. IRI is the International Research Institute for Climate Predictions at UCSD. It's a good site for all sorts of things:

• IRI: Experimental Forecast Group
• IRI: Links
• IRI: ENSO Impacts
• IRI: Net Assessment Forecasts
• IRI: Map Room - Links to all sorts of maps of physical data sets regarding the state of the climate system.

Other links where you can find data sets relevant to ENSO and your projects.....

• The Global Change Master Directory - This NASA site has links to many other sites with environmental data.
• Earth Observations - Another NASA site. 
• Data available from CRU - The Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the UK.
• CLIVAR - An International Climate Research Programme for the 21st Century - CLIVAR stands for Climate Variability and Predictability. This is a big international research initiative tasked with studying all kinds of climatic phenomena including El Niño.
• CLIVAR Index
• NWS - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA EL NIÑO PAGE
• El Niño Forecast, SIO Climate Research - This site is based at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography (SIO).
• Understanding and predicting ENSO - A web paper by David Battisti (University of Washington) whom will be lecturing here on campus on April 20th, 2000.
• Welcome to IGES - IGES is the Institute of Global Environment and Society. They're interested in forecasting work and if you are to, you may want to look through it.
• El Niño: online meteorology guide - This site is quite easy to move around, not overwhelming or anything. It mostly describes El Niño and has interesting stuff about its consequences, effects.
• PanAmerican Climate Studies (PACS) home page
• Eastern Eq. Pacific Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies - This is one page from the above site that's particularly spiffy; it shows one of the El Niño indices we're interested in.
• Comprehensive El Niño Bibliography - Want to find something published on El Niño?
• World Climate Report - This is an on-line journal that often has stuff on El Niño, especially in the hot topics. Pretty interesting stuff, most of the time.
• GHCN - The Global Historical Climatology Network has data sets for you, especially long historical ones.