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Figure 3

From: The Springtime Influence of Natural Tropical Pacific Variability on the Surface Climate of the Ross Ice Shelf, West Antarctica: Implications for Ice Shelf Thinning

Figure 3

Top four panels are the time series of observed SON temperatures from weather stations located on the Ross Ice Shelf and central West Antarctica between 1979 and 2014. (a) McMurdo, (b) Marble Point, (c) Gill, and (d) Byrd3. Bottom two panels are standardized SON 10-year running averages of (e) IPO index47 and western tropical Pacific SST and outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) averaged over 150–170°E, 5–20°S, and (f) western tropical Pacific SST, ERA-Interim 2 m temperature grid cell located nearest to McMurdo (78°S, 166.5°E), and sea ice concentration in the southeast Ross Sea/southwest Amundsen Sea averaged over 164.5–130.5°W, 68.5–73.5°S (see Fig. S1 for sea ice region).

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