Climate Indices: Monthly Atmospheric and Ocean Time Series

Purpose: Plot, analyze and compare different monthly mean climate time series.

Note: Climatology is entire time period of time series.

Time Series 1?

What is the filename for the custom time series data?
What is the custom time series title?

Time Series 2?

What is the filename for the custom time series data?
What is the custom time series title?

Year range? (1948 to present): to

Action?
Plot time series
Optional Set y range: to
Type of Plot: Line   Boxes
Optional Apply Running Mean to monthly values: months (use odd number)
Correlate two time series
Lag of 1st time series? Positive lag values indicate 1st time series leads 2nd; negative lag values means 1st lags second.

Correlate using? All months or seasons in time-series (1 value) Each months or season calculated separately
Plot autocorrelation function
Plot Cross correlation function
For all actions:
Time Averaging? Monthly   Seasonal Average: First month of season: Second:
Type of data? Mean   Anomaly

Year range for climo timeseries 1 (default is 1948 to present): to

Year range for climo timeseries 2 (default is 1948 to present): to


Please reference time series use in publications! Time series that are regularly updated have a * after their name.

Time SeriesFormat
The format for all time series is:
 year1 yearN
year1 janval febval marval aprval mayval junval julval augval sepval octval novval decval
year2 janval febval marval aprval mayval junval julval augval sepval octval novval decval
...
yearN janval febval marval aprval mayval junval julval augval sepval octval novval decval
  missing value
Feedback
Please let me know if you have other index time series for possible inclusion. Timeseries may not include the latest available data. Older values can change when new data is received for varioius reasons.Use at your own risk. You can email us at psl.data@noaa.gov for any suggestions or comments.