Figure 2

Monthly evolution of Niño3.4, mangrove FCC for 3 dieback categories, \(\hbox {T}_{{max}}\), rainfall, ESI, and sea level height (SLH) anomalies during previous strong El Niño conditions (black curve) and 2015–2016 (red). All the variables are normalized by their own standard deviation before lag-regressing the normalized anomalies onto Niño3.4 and the regression coefficients are scaled by normalized Niño3.4 index magnitude during strong ENSO. Plots are generated using the NCAR Command Language version 6.6.2 (http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/).