Fig. 3: The contribution of the Philippine archipelago to the buffering effect. | Nature Communications

Fig. 3: The contribution of the Philippine archipelago to the buffering effect.

From: Philippine archipelago and South China Sea monsoon plus ocean cooling buffer Northwestern Pacific super typhoons

Fig. 3

a Terrain height (m) of the East Asian region. White lines indicate the tracks of Northwest Pacific typhoons (WNPTYs; see Methods) that crossed the yellow coastline. b The mean intensity (m s–1) of WNPTYs during the half-day before reaching the Northwest Pacific (WNP) line (Line_WNP) and the coastline (Line_Coast). Error bars indicate the 90% confidence interval. ‘OBS’, ‘EX0’, and ‘EX1’ represent the observations, the control experiment, and the experiment in which the Philippine archipelago was removed, respectively (see Methods for details). c The difference in the mean intensity (m s–1) of WNPTYs between the coastline and the WNP line. In this study, the intensity difference in EX0 is set as 100%, representing the total buffering effect. The 46% in EX1 represents the relative contribution of atmospheric–oceanic conditions, while the remaining 54% is attributed to the Philippine archipelago, as noted below the bars.

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