Extended Data Fig. 4: Thermal advective processes involved in simulated and observed El Niño.
From: Future increase in extreme El Niño supported by past glacial changes
Anomalous zonal thermal advection (green, in W m−2) and associated zonal current anomalies (red, in m s−1) (left) and anomalous vertical thermal advection (green, in W m−2) and thermocline depth anomalies (red, in m) (right) for a composite of simulated (top) and observed extreme El Niño (bottom). The simulated composite is from El Niño events with peak amplitude exceeding 2 K in the 0 ka BP simulation. The observed composite is based on the 1972, 1982, and 1997 El Niño events using the ORAS5 dataset60.
