Extratropical Highlights

  Table of Indices  (Table 3)

  Global Surface Temperature  E1

  Temperature Anomalies (Land Only)  E2

  Global Precipitation  E3

  Regional Precip Estimates (a)  E4

  Regional Precip Estimates (b)  E5

  U.S. Precipitation  E6

  Northern Hemisphere

  Southern Hemisphere

  Stratosphere

• Height Anomalies (a)  S1
  
• Height Anomalies (b)  S2
  
• Temperatures (a)  S3
  
• Temperatures (b)  S4
  
• Ozone (a)  S5
  
• Ozone (b)  S6
  
• EP Flux  S7
  
• Ozone Hole  S8
  

  Appendix 2: Additional Figures

Eliassen-Palm (E-P) Flux

SEPTEMBER 2012

FIGURE S7.  Daily vertical component of EP flux (which is proportional to the poleward transport of heat or upward transport of potential energy by planetary wave) at 100 hPa averaged over (top) 30N-90N and (bottom) 30S-90S. The EP flux unit (kg m^-1s^-2) has been scaled by multiplying a factor of the Brunt Vaisala frequency divided by the Coriolis parameter and the radius of the earth. The letter 'M' indicates the current monthly mean value and the letter 'C' indicates the climatological mean value. Additionally, the normalized departures from the monthly climatological EP flux values are shown.