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From: Mechanisms of asymmetry in sea surface temperature anomalies associated with the Indian Ocean Dipole revealed by closed heat budget

Figure 2

Mixed layer heat budget of pIOD and nIOD years. (a) Mixed layer temperature (MLT) tendency (black), zonal advection (red), meridional advection (green), vertical advection (blue), horizontal mixing (purple), vertical mixing (orange), entrainment (grey), and surface heat flux (brown) term anomalies (in °C) integrated over the development phase from April (0) to September (0) for the pIOD (left) and the nIOD (middle). Their sums are also presented (right). The circles (triangles) indicate that anomalies are significant at the 95% (90%) confidence level by a two-tailed t test. (b) As in (a), but with an offline calculation. The residual term is indicated by a violet bar. (c) As in (a), but normalized by the atmospheric forcing (i.e., EQUINOO, see “Methods”).

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