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+ title="Climate Indexes" date="2017-04-25" author="C.L.Hepplewhite" comment="true" toc="true" +

1 Scope and Purpose

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2 The Indexes

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2.1 QBO (Quasi-Biennial Oscillation)

Original source: http://www.geo.fu-berlin.de/en/met/ag/strat/produkte/qbo/
Alternative source: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/data/indices/
Data available at: /asl/s1/chepplew/data/atmosSci/QBO/
Sample plot: pub/chepplew/atmosSci/climate_indexes/figs/qbo_wind_pdf.pdf
Matlab reader: /home/chepplew/myLib/matlib/load_qbo_index.m

2.2 Solar Cycle UV proxy

Original source: http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de/gome/solar/
Use the latest version: MgII_composite.dat
Matlab reader: /home/chepplew/myLib/matlib/load_MgII_solar_index.m

2.3 ENSO & SOI (Southern Oscillation Index) Equatorial (Nino) SST

There are several options depending on Nino-regions and analysis type:
The multivariate index: https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/enso/mei/index.html
Original source: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/ensostuff/detrend.nino34.ascii.txt
Data available at: /asl/s1/chepplew/data/atmosSci/ENSO/nino12.tab, nino3.tab, nino34.tab, soi.tab, MEI.tab.
Sample plot:
Matlab reader: /home/chepplew/myLib/matlib/load_ersl_enso.m

2.4 Equatorial Outgoing LW Radiation (OLR).

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2.5 Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO)

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2.6 Arctic Oscillation (AO)

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2.7 North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)

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2.8 Pacific North America (PNA)

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2.9 North Pacific Index (NPI) (formerly Aleutian Low Pressure Index)

Original source: https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data/north-pacific-np-index-trenberth-and-hurrell-monthly-and-winter
Data available at: /asl/s1/chepplew/data/atmosSci/NPI/NPI.txt
Sample plot: /asl/s1/chepplew/data/atmosSci/NPI/NPI_plot_1.gif
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2.10 Pacific Ocean Decadal Oscillation (PDO)

Original source: http://research.jisao.washington.edu/pdo/
Data available at: asl/s1/chepplew/data/atmosSci/PDO
Sample plot: pub/chepplew/atmosSci/climate_indexes/figs/pdo_tsplot_jan2017.png
Matlab reader: /home/chepplew/myLib/matlib/load_pdo_index.m

2.11 Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD)

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2.13 Amundsen Sea Low index

Original source: https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data/amundsen-sea-low-indices
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2.14 Sudden Stratospheric Warmings (SSW)

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Author: chris hepplewhite

Created: 2017-04-28 Fri 10:27

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