Links for the Oceanography Lab El Niño Exercise (8^th Edition):

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n  Part I:  Equatorial Pacific TAO Means and Anomalies

The TAO Story (Animation requires Adobe Flash Player): http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/proj_over/flash/mainDOC.html
Animation has no sound and is shown as a looping video (duration of three minutes).

Figure 6—October 22, 2008 TAO image

Figures 7 and 8—November 1997 and November 1998 TAO images

TAO/TRITON Most Recent Data:  http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/jsdisplay/

n  Part II: Ocean Surface Topography From Space – Equatorial Pacific

Figure 9—JPL Ocean Surface Topography—November 1997

Figure 10—JPL Ocean Surface Topography—November 1998

JPL El Niño/La Niña Watch Most Recent Image:
http://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/science/elninopdo/elnino

n  Part III: CoastWatch Images of the West Coast of North America

Figure 11—CoastWatch—November 1997

Figure 12—CoastWatch—November 1998

CoastWatch Most Recent Image:  http://coastwatch.pfel.noaa.gov/elnino.html

n  Part IV: Records of ENSO ― The Southern Oscillation Index (SOI)

Figure 13—SOI 1950–2008 for air pressure gradients between Darwin, Australia and Tahiti, French Polynesia.

n  Part V: Impacts of ENSO

Figure 14—U.S. Precipitation Anomalies

Table 1 and Figure 15—Influence of El Niño on Hurricane Formation

Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab:
(Select the MPEG-1 animation; duration 19 seconds)

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010000/a010047/

NASA Scientific Visualization Studio:

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/stories/elnino/gallery/index.html

Figure 16—Pacific sardine spawning

Take the U.S. Navy's El Niño Quiz

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