Teleconnection indices (s2stools.indices)

Download a couple of teleconnections directly from the web into xarray objects.

Sources: * QBO https://www.geo.fu-berlin.de/met/ag/strat/produkte/qbo/qbo.dat * MJO https://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.BoM/.MJO/.RMM/.phase/T+exch+table-+text+text+skipanyNaN+-table+.html * ENSO https://psl.noaa.gov/gcos_wgsp/Timeseries/Data/nino34.long.anom.data

Functions

s2stools.indices.download_enso(interp_daily=False) Dataset

Download ENSO 3.4 index from NOAA: “https://psl.noaa.gov/gcos_wgsp/Timeseries/Data/nino34.long.anom.data

Parameters:

interp_daily (bool) – data comes at monthly resolution, if True interpolate to daily. Defaults to False.

Returns:

da – El Nino Southern Oscillation 3.4 index

Return type:

xr.DataArray

s2stools.indices.download_indices(enso=True, mjo=True, u60=False, qbo=True)

Download a couple of teleconnection indices.

Parameters:
  • enso (bool)

  • mjo (bool)

  • u60 (bool)

  • qbo (bool)

Returns:

ds

Return type:

xr.Dataset

s2stools.indices.download_mjo()

Download MJO phase and amplitude from Columbia university: “https://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.BoM/.MJO/.RMM/.phase/

Returns:

da_phase, da_phase – Madden Julian Oscillation Realtime Multivariate Index: Phase, Amplitude

Return type:

[xr.DataArray, xr.DataArray]

s2stools.indices.download_qbo()

Download Quasi-Biennial-Oscillation wind data from FU Berlin: “https://www.geo.fu-berlin.de/met/ag/strat/produkte/qbo/qbo.dat

Returns:

ds – Quasi-Biennial Oscillation

Return type:

xr.DataArray

s2stools.indices.get_qbo()

Backward compatibility for download_qbo

Returns:

ds – Quasi-Biennial Oscillation

Return type:

xr.DataArray

Warning

Deprecated since version 0.3.0: Use download_qbo() for consistency with mjo, enso

s2stools.indices.nao() DataArray

Downloading the North Atlantic Oscillation index provided by NCEP.

Returns:

nao_index

Return type:

xr.DataArray

References

https://ftp.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/cwlinks/norm.daily.nao.index.b500101.current.ascii