Figure 6

Time-longitude plot of BRAN sea level height (shaded, cm) and ERA-interim surface zonal wind (contours, m \(\hbox {s}^{-1}\)) anomalies averaged between \({5}^{\circ }\)S and \({5}^{\circ }\)N for two El Niño events during 1996–1998 and 2014–2016, respectively. Plots are generated using the NCAR Command Language version 6.6.2 (http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/).