NOTES:  SST Anomalies -- April 4, 1998

The 30 deg C waters around Galapagos have lowered
several tenths of a degree over the past few weeks but
at the surface the large pool of anomalously warm water 
remains unchanged for the most part over the eastern
tropical Pacific. 

Compared to this time last year, the Indian Ocean south 
of the equator is dramatically warmer as coral reef
bleaching is taking its toll at many of the reefs from the 
African coast to Australia.

AES