This is an interesting paper on capturing the volumetric effects of sloshing:
Simonini, A., Vetrano, M. R., Colinet, P., & Rambaud, P. (2014). Particle Image Velocimetry applied to water sloshing due to a harmonic external excitation. In Proc. of the 17th International Symposium on Applications of Laser Techniques to Fluid Mechanics.
The scale that they describe applies to containers filled with liquid subject to external forces.
Compare against the very large scale equatorial Pacific dynamics
linked from NOAA here
Absolute temperature, from which the anomaly is based
Anomaly of temperature. The emerging hotspots are what lead to El Nino conditions.
GeoEnergy Math 
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