Research Article

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

Table 2

Composite heat fluxes of SP- and SU-type El Niño events during 1978–2016 (units: mK/s).

Height200 hPa100 hPa50 hPa

Total value−1.64−2.25
Dec. value14.6112.88−3.19
Jan. value−8.61−5.02
Feb. value−10.91−7.49−3.02

significant at the 95% confidence level.