AMWG Variability Diagnostics

 Dave Williamson's Draft of the WGNE Standard Diagnostics of Variability.

6-Hourly Data plots

  • Wavenumber-frequency power spectra plots

    Daily Data plots

  • Hovmöller plots of 200 mb velocity potential
  • Madden-Julian Oscillation index plots
  • Precipitation rate histograms

    Monthly/Seasonal Data plots

  • Equatorial Pacific Hovmöller plots of anomalies
  • Timeseries of Niño 1&2, Niño 3, Niño 4 anomalies
  • Timeseries of surface temperature anomalies
  • Timeseries of precipitation anomalies
  • Timeseries atmospheric angular momentum anomalies
  • EOFs of winter 500 mb geopotential height
  • Arctic Oscillation EOF
  • Amplitude and phase of annual cycle
  • Atlantic SST/precip squared correlation

    send questions and comments to
    Mark Stevens (stevens@ucar.edu)