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Niño 3.4 index: a standalone construct

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Physical oceanography

the sea surface temperature anomaly averaged over a central equatorial Pacific box, used with a threshold to define El Niño and La Niña events.

In physical oceanography, Niño 3.4 index refers to the sea surface temperature anomaly averaged over a central equatorial Pacific box, used with a threshold to define El Niño and La Niña events. This meaning comes from Trenberth (1997) in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.[1]

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References

  1. Trenberth, K. E. (1997). The Definition of El Niño. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 78(12), 2771-2777. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0477(1997)078<2771:tdoeno>2.0.co;2

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