Table 2 Basic statistics of September–November mean coral SSTs and various historical SST products centered at Enggano Island (5°S, 102°E) for the time period 1930–2008.

From: Coral Sr/Ca records provide realistic representation of eastern Indian Ocean cooling during extreme positive Indian Ocean Dipole events

 

Enggano (95% CI)

SODA2.2.4 (95% CI)

HadISST1 (95% CI)

ERSST5 (95% CI)

Min

− 3

− 2.11

− 1.25

− 1.71

Max

1.45

1.2

0.9

1.54

St. Dev

0.79 (0.45/0.98)

0.68 (0.53/0.79)

0.43 (0.34/0.51)

0.6 (0.49/0.69)

Skewness

− 2.07 (− 2.92/− 1.39)

− 0.97 (− 1.48/− 0.58)

− 0.72 (− 1.36/− 0.26)

− 0.12 (− 0.65/0.38)

  1. All records were centered to their mean. 95% confidence levels were calculated using bootstrap methods.