Realtime El Niño Measurements
A comprehensive list of realtime measurements and data analyses and products related to El Niño / La Niña
In situ and Climate Data
- Tropical Pacific Conditions: Real-time TAO El Nino buoy data
from the NOAA/PMEL Global Tropical Moored Buoy Array - State of the ocean climate - ENSO indices | Atmosphere | Surface ocean | subsurface ocean | sea ice
from NOAA Ocean Observations Panel for Climate - Global drifting buoys
from NOAA AOML - Argo profiling floats
from NOAA PMEL, the US Data Assembly Center (DAC), OceanOps, and the Argo global data centers USGODAE and IFREMER. - Sea level data
from the University of Hawaii Sea Level Center - XBT/XCTD
from Scripps Institution of Oceanography - Realtime climate maps | US Climate plotting | Sea Surface Temperature animations
from NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory - Regional Climate Data - For many regions of the US and the globe, updated weekly
from the National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center - Monitoring climate information - Degree days, Palmer drought data, snow cover data, etc.
from the National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center - Pacific Island Climate Data and Maps
from the National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center - Global Climate Data & Maps - Climate, Weather Analyses and Weather Forecasts
from the National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center - Monthly atmospheric and sea surface temprature indices (including SOI)
from the National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center
Data Products & Analyses
- Upper ocean heat content and ENSO
from NOAA PMEL Global Tropical Moored Buoy Array - National Hurricane Center SST analysis
from the NOAA National Hurricane Center and Central Pacific Hurricane Center - NCEP Global SST (Near-real time)
from University of Wisconsin-Madison's Space Science and Engineering Center - Weekly El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Update
from the National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center - Current state of the Tropical Pacific & Comparison of different El Niños & United States Climate Interactive pages by state
from NOAA's Physical Sciences Laboratory - NOAA WAVEWATCH
from NOAA NWS Office of Modeling and Development (OMD)
Satellite Data
- Sea surface temperature charts for Equatorial Pacific, Global, etc.
from the NOAA NESDIS Office of Satellite and Product Operations - Coral Bleaching Products
from NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution - Near-real time sea level / altimeter data products
from NOAA/NESDIS Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry - Sea Surface Temperature Watch on the US West Coast
from NOAA Coast Watch - Sea surface temperature data
from NOAA Office of Satellite & Product Operations
Other Buoy Data
- Equatorial Pacific El Nino (TAO) buoys (NOAA PMEL)
- Interactive marine observations from the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC)
- Tsunami Warning Buoy data (NDBC)
- U.S. Marine Environmental Buoy database from the National Ocean Data Center (NCEI)
- Moored, C-MAN and Drifting buoy data from the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC)
- Tides and Currents (NOAA NOS)
- Global drifting buoys (NOAA AOML)
- Argo profiling floats (NOAA PMEL)
Graphic shows realtime global SST from Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.


