El Niño Strengthening - related image preview

720 x 410
JPEG

El Niño Strengthening - related image preview

720 x 215
PNG

El Niño Strengthening - related image preview

JPEG

El Niño Strengthening

With each passing month, 2015 looks more and more like 1997.


NASA Earth Observatory map by Jesse Allen, using Jason-2 and TOPEX/Posideon data provided by Akiko Kayashi and Bill Patzert, NASA/JPL Ocean Surface Topography Team. NASA Earth Observatory chart by Joshua Stevens, using data from NOAA. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.

Published October 13, 2015
Data acquired October 1997 - October 2015

Sources:
JASON-2
TOPEX/Poseidon