Figure 5

Composite of WET minus DRY conditions for the NW (top panels) and the NE (lower panels): for ((a,b) left column) Australian rainfall¹⁵ (mm d⁻¹), SST (shaded, °C) and surface wind at 10-m (vectors, ms⁻¹), and ((c,d) right column) evaporation (shaded, mm d⁻¹) and mean sea level pressure (contoured, with contour interval of 5Pa). The scale for the wind vectors (ms⁻¹) is in upper right. All data have been detrended and low pass filtered with a 5-year running mean for the period 1901–2010 available for ERA-20C¹⁹. Values significant above 95% confidence level are shown by stippling. Vectors are plotted only where significantly different than zero at 5% level.