Equatorial pacific meridional wind anomaly index

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  • Equatorial Pacific Meridional Wind Anomaly Index
definition
  • An ENSO meridional wind anomaly index is calculated for the region 12-2N, 160E-80W from the International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (COADS). This region was chosen from a map of meridional wind regressed onto an index of eastern equatorial Pacific SST for the period 1950-79.
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