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Description:An atlas of sea surface temperatures (SSTs) and surface winds over the global tropical oceans based on the Comprehensive Ocean Atmosphere Data Set (COADS) is presented. The emphasis of the atlas is the evolution of the annual cycle and variations about it. Mean sea surface temperature, zonal and meridional wind means, standard deviations, differences from the annual mean and differences from the zonal mean are presented for the period 1950-1979, along with the vector wind means and differences from the annual mean. Time-longitude cross sections from 1950-1987 are shown for the mean, anomaly and difference from the annual mean for the zonal wind, meridional wind and SST. Mean and anomalous ENSO composites for the vector wind and SST based on the years 1951, 1953, 1957, 1965, 1969, 1972, and 1976 are presented. The first and second harmonic of the SST, the zonal wind and meridional wind are also shown. The first and second harmonic of the 200 mb zonal wind and the outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) are included in order to give an indication of the circulation throughout the tropical troposphere.
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