Figure 5: Climate variability in Taiwan related to central Pacific sea-surface temperature.
From: Recent enhancement of central Pacific El Niño variability relative to last eight centuries
Long-term (1981–2010) mean geopotential height filed (a, unit: geopotential metres, gpm) and wind field (c, unit: m s−1) at the 850 hPa pressure level retrieved by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction/the National Center for Atmospheric Research reanalysis data32, and precipitation field (e, unit: mm per day) retrieved by global precipitation climatology project data55 in the reconstruction season (March–April–May), and the composite anomaly fields of 850 hPa geopotential height (b), 850 hPa wind (d) and precipitation (f) in eight selected central Pacific El Nino years (1987, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2002 and 2005). Red dots are the location of Taiwan. This map was created using the software OpenGrADS Version 2.0.a8.
