Satellite eyes focus on El Niño


Temperature and Anomalies in November  1997
 
ASST products processed at RAL The data are averaged over one month, and to obtain anomalies, the averaged surface temperature of the corresponding month in 1995 was subtracted

Temperature and Anomalies in October 2000
 
Temperature and Anomalies in October 2000

3-D representation of the fully developed 1997 El Niño
 
The height is the sea level anomaly (-40 to +40 cm) measured by the Radar Altimeter and the colour is the sea surface temperature anomaly (-6 to +8 degrees) measured by the Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR). Both of these instruments are also on-board Envisat.



Release date: 2 July 2002