Fig 3. February-April mean SST (shading; °C) and precipitation (contours, solid positive; mm/day) variation across the tropical Pacific basin for two El Niño events: a) extreme ENSO (1998) and b) a Coastal El Niño (2017).
There were no warming signals across the central Pacific basin before the Coastal El Niño event (Data from NOAA ERSST v5, GPCP v2.3).
