But the shape of the curve you plot should generally
match the shape of the curve I have provided.
The point I was making was that this version of ENSO index has what I think is an astonishing correlation with Roy Spencer's AMSR - E GLOBAL SST's, as compared here: I find it hard to wrap my head around a global lag of only 3 months, let alone
the matching shape of the curves!
Not exact matches
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Yet the sunspot numbers in the two graphs have noticeably different
shapes, not only in the timing and relative heights
of their maxima, but also in the little wiggles than amazingly
match those in the river flow
curve.