The figures below are courtesy of Phillip Gentry of the University of Alabama at Huntsville. Note that in August, the ENSO effect on lower tropospheric temperatures is still weak. There are large cool anomaly regions in the southern hemisphere which are quite prominent, as is the warm regional anomaly in northern North America and adjacent Arctic Ocean. The regional character of the warm and cold regions are quite evident also. Such regional variations is one of the reasons that seeking to define the climate system and its variability and change over time using a global average surface temperature is so flawed (e.g. see also).
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Color maps of local temperature anomalies may soon be available on-line at:
The processed temperature data is available on-line at:
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