Figure 3.
SST over the tropical Pacific from MERRA Ocean for December 1982 (first row), December 1997 (second row) and December 2015 (third row). The highlighted boxes from West to East are Niño4, Niño 3.4 (white), Niño 3, and Niño1+2.
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