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The NOAA TAO Project Office provides a longitude-time plot of zonal-wind (UWND), sea-surface-temperature, and 20°C-depth (Z20) anomalies.

Notes on verification

Verbatim confirmation from PMEL's own El Niño status page, plus corroboration from related PMEL pages and a scientific publication describing the same plot format as a standard TAO array product. [tier=unverified indep_score=0.375 clusters=1 claim_tier=everyday] [kind-backfill 2026-09-15: kind=attributed eligibility=high] [harvest 2026-09-24: +2 source(s) on new hosts; tier unverified->silver indep=1.0 clusters=2]

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