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rerddap is available through CRAN, or the development version at the rerddap repository
The source code for the PICES2017 notebooks can be found at the pices2017 repository
pdf - Talk showing evidence that the so-called "blob" was due to a coast-wide warming starting late 2011, combined with an artifact of the methods being used, due to differential seasonal-shifts and local Ekman dynamics.
notebook R notebook showing that when properly analyzed, another "blob", this time in the tropics, was a product of not allowing for shifts in the seasonal.