Research Article

Intercomparing the Response of Tropospheric and Stratospheric Temperature to Two Types of El Niño Onset

Figure 1

Niño3.4 index time series for SP-type (black asterisks) and SU-type (red triangles) El Niño events. The horizontal black (red) line indicates the mean value of the SP (SU) type. The horizontal green line indicates the mean value of all (SP and SU) events combined. The horizontal yellow lines indicate the ±0.5 index levels.