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Physical Monitoring

While it’s difficult to predict how warm sea surface temperatures will get during the next El Niño event, or how harsh the next drought will be, a wealth of historical physical monitoring data help us predict the extent of future weather anomalies and allow us to define record-setting events. Decades of physical monitoring track temperatures, precipitation and sea levels over time, providing a solid base for a wide range of research projects and questions.

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