# Presentation: 902509

## Global Ocean Monitoring: Recent Evolution, Current Status, and Predictions

- Prepared by
- Climate Prediction Center, NCEP
**November**** ****7****, 2008**

**http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/GODAS/**

## Outline

** ****Overview**
** ****Recent highlights**
** ****Pacific/Arctic Ocean**
** ****Indian Ocean**
** ****Atlantic Ocean**
** ****CFS SST Predictions**

## Slide 3

## Global SST Anomaly (0C) and Anomaly Tendency

_**Global SST Anomaly (**__**0**__**C) and Anomaly Tendency**_

## Global SSH Anomaly (cm) and Anomaly Tendency

_**Global SSH Anomaly (cm) and Anomaly Tendency**_

## Slide 6

## Sea Surface Temperature

- CAMS Land Temperature

## Tropical Pacific Ocean

## Evolution of Pacific NINO SST Indices

_**Evolution of Pacific NINO SST Indices**_

**Nino 3**

## Slide 10

## Slide 11

## Evolution of Equatorial Pacific SST (oC), 0-300m Heat Content (oC), 850-mb Zonal Wind (m/s), and OLR (W/m2)‏ Anomaly 

_**Evolution of Equatorial Pacific SST (oC), 0-300m Heat Content (oC)**__**, **__**850-mb Zonal Wind (m/s), and **__**OLR (W/m**__**2**__**)**__**‏**__** Anomaly**__** **_

_**La Nina**__** **_

**Notes:**
Have a single plot?

## Evolution of Equatorial Pacific Surface Zonal Current Anomaly (cm/s)

_**Evolution of Equatorial Pacific Surface Zonal Current **__**Anomaly (cm/s)**_

## North Pacific & Arctic Ocean

## Slide 15

## Slide 16

## Slide 17

## http://coastwatch.pfel.noaa.gov/FAST 

- http://coastwatch.pfel.noaa.gov/FAST

## Tropical Indian Ocean

## Evolution of Indian Ocean SST Indices

_**Evolution of Indian Ocean SST Indices**_

## Slide 21

## Slide 22

## Slide 23

**Notes:**
Make one plot ... zero lines

## Tropical Atlantic Ocean

## Evolution of Tropical Atlantic SST Indices

_**Evolution of Tropical Atlantic SST Indices**_

## Slide 26

## North Atlantic Ocean

## Slide 28

## Slide 29

## Slide 30

## Slide 31

## CFS SST Predictions and Ocean Initial Conditions

## CFS Niño3.4 SST Predictions from Different Initial Months

_**CFS Niño3.4 SST Predictions from Different **__**Initial Months**_

**Notes:**
Also look at the prediction of other prominent SST anomalies

## CFS DMI SST Predictions from Different Initial Months

_**CFS DMI SST Predictions from Different **__**Initial Months**_

**Notes:**
Also look at the prediction of other prominent SST anomalies

## CFS Tropical North Atlantic (TNA) SST Predictions from Different Initial Months

_**CFS Tropical North Atlantic (TNA) SST Predictions **__**from Different **__**Initial Months**_

**Notes:**
Also look at the prediction of other prominent SST anomalies

## Slide 36

## Backup Slides

## Data Sources and References

**  ****Optimal Interpolation SST (OI SST) version 2 (Reynolds et al. 2002) **
**  ****SST 1971-2000 base period means (Xue et al. 2003)**
**  ****NCEP CDAS winds, surface radiation ****and**** heat fluxes**
**  ****NESDIS Outgoing Long-wave Radiation**
**  ****PMEL TAO equatorial temperature analysis**
**  ****NCEP’s Global Ocean Data Assimilation System temperature, heat content, ****currents (Behringer and Xue 2004)**
**  ****Aviso Altimetry Sea Surface Height**
**  ****Ocean Surface Current Analyses – Realtime (OSCAR)****‏**