Download Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Indices:

Please, note: in order to use the Time Series presented on this website in the PSD Interactive Tools for "Custom" use the pathname: /Datasets/Timeseries/Filename, where the "Filename" is taken from the tables. For example: /Datasets/Timeseries/CAR.
Click on a "Filename" to get the Time series and download information, courtesy of the NOAA/PSD-CIRES/CDC.

Seasonally Smoothed SST Indices:

DescriptionFilename
Caribbean IndexCAR
Equatorial Atlantic IndexEA
Optimal Structure and SST field Correlation COROPT
Hawaiian IndexHAW
Indian Ocean IndexIND
Nino3.4 IndexN34
Nino4 IndexN4
North Tropical Atlantic IndexNTA
South Tropical Atlantic IndexSTA

El Niņo-Pass filtered SST Indices:

DescriptionFilename
El Nino Pass Caribbean IndexCAR.EN
El Nino Pass Optimal Structure and SST field Correlation COROPT.EN
El Nino Pass Equatorial Atlantic IndexEA.EN
El Nino Pass Index Hawaiian IndexHAW.EN
El Nino Pass Indian Ocean IndexIND.EN
El Nino Pass Nino3.4 IndexN34.EN
El Nino Pass Nino4 IndexN4.EN
El Nino Pass North Tropical Atlantic IndexNTA.EN
El Nino Pass South Tropical Atlantic IndexSTA.EN

El Niņo + Trend Indices:

DescriptionFilename
El Nino+Trend Caribbean IndexCAR.ENTr
El Nino+Trend Optimal Structure and SST field CorrelationCOROPT.ENTr
El Nino+Trend Hawaiian IndexHAW.ENTr
El Nino+Trend Equatorial Atlantic IndexEA.ENTr
El Nino+Trend Indian Ocean IndexIND.ENTr
El Nino+Trend Nino3.4 IndexN34.ENTr
El Nino+Trend Nino4 IndexN4.ENTr
El Nino+Trend North Tropical Atlantic IndexNTA.ENTr
El Nino+Trend South Tropical Atlantic IndexSTA.ENTr

Background SST Indices:

DescriptionFilename
Background Caribbean IndexCAR.Bckgd
Background Equatorial Atlantic IndexEA.Bckgd
Background Hawaiian IndexHAW.Bckgd
Background Indian Ocean IndexIND.Bckgd
Background Nino3.4 IndexN34.Bckgd
Background Nino4 IndexN4.Bckgd
Background North Tropical Atlantic IndexNTA.Bckgd
Background South Tropical Atlantic IndexSTA.Bckgd
Tropical SST TrendSSTtrop.TREND
Tropical Atlantic DipoleTAD

Seasonally Smoothed SST Pacific SST Indices:

DescriptionFilename
Pacific Decadal Oscillation IndexPDO