Seasonal Forecasts and Climate Change


Climate assessments

IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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Historical Data and Indicators

NIWA - Climate - with daily climate maps, also climate summaries
NIWA NZ Drought Monitor - map and graphs
NIWA - Climate Data (Education & Training) - incl. extremes
NIWA CliFlo - The National Climate Database
NIWA HIRDS - High Intensity Rainfall Design System - includes rainfall return periods
NIWA - Environmental Information Services

NOAA State of the Climate - incl links to global info (eg lastest Global analysis)
NOAA ESRL Climate Indices: Monthly Atmospheric and Ocean Time Series
NASA GISS Surface Temperature Analysis - incl global anomaly charts

MEI - Multivariate ENSO Index - via NOAA ESRL PSD
BoM: ENSO Forecast and Climate Driver Update
ENSO disgnostic discussion - from NOAA CPC

NINO 3.4 based ONI - cold and warm episodes by season via NOAA CPC
NINO 3.4 - east/central tropical Pacific SST - data table since 1950 via NOAA ESRL PSD

SOI - Southern Oscillation Index - graph and data table since 1876 via BoM
SOI - Southern Oscillation Index - data table since 1950 via NOAA ESRL PSD

Historical Daily SST - graph and plots, via Climate Reanalyzer

OLR - Outgoing Longwave Radiation - many plots (incl totals and anomalies) via NOAA ESRL PSD


Long-range: Monthly, Seasonal and Climate Forecasts

MetService - Rural Monthly Outlook, a review of last month with a four-week forecast

NIWA - Sesonal Climate Outlook for the next three months

SubX - Subseasonal Forecasts - with static or customisable maps

BoM - Climate Model Summary with links to BoM and other model forecasts

Colombia Climate School IRI ENSO forecast



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