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]
Sources
- El Niño Today | El Nino Theme Page - A comprehensive Resource (seed:science_and_space)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Atmosphere_Ocean_project (corroboration)
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967063701000437 (corroboration)
- https://faculty.washington.edu/kessler/ENSO/ENSO-2002.html (corroboration)