Enhanced thermodynamic drivers of recent ENSO teleconnections

The magnitude of western and central Pacific atmospheric heating, precipitation and total precipitable water extremes provide a valuable means of measuring the strength of El Nino and La Nina events in a warming world. This data set brings together information from eight different sources: This data set draws from eight widely used sources:
1. The NOAA Extended Reconstruction sea surface temperature data set (version 5), 2. ERA5 Reanalysis atmospheric heating, precipitation and total precipitable water,
3. MERRA2 Reanalysis atmospheric heating, precipitation and total precipitable water, 4. JRA55 Reanalysis precipitation and total precipitable water,
5. NCEP2 Reanalysis precipitation and total precipitable water, 6. NOAA Physical Sciences Division CAM5.1 precipitation, 7. Global Precipitation Climatology Project version 3.2 precipitation, and 8. Remote Sensing Systems total precipitable water. These seasonal time series can be used to confirm that the atmospheric forcing associated with El Nino-Southern Oscillation events is increasing magnitude. Monthly time series were extracted for the specified regions of interest (i.e., the tropical Western Pacific and the equatorial Central Pacific). Averaging was used to translate the monthly time series into four three-month season time series.