Fig. 3: Changes of physical processes in a warmer climate.
From: Summer and winter precipitation in East Asia scale with global warming at different rates
a, b Changes of column water vapor content (color shading, unit in kg/m2) overlayed on its climatology (contours) and the climatological vertically integrated winds weighted by specific humidity (vector, unit in m/s) for JJA and DJF. The panels below are the same as (a, b) except for different fields. c, d Changes of tropospheric winds at 300 hPa (vector) and percentage changes of the magnitude of the vertical wind shear (color shading, unit in %, blue color represents larger value to denote the relationship with precipitation). e, f Percentage changes of the dynamical amplitude of eddies in the upper troposphere at 300 hPa (unit in %, blue color represents larger value). g, h Percentage changes in the eddy amplitude of precipitable water (unit in %/K). i, j Percentage changes scaled by unit temperature change in the discharge rate of precipitable water during the extreme precipitation events at 99% threshold (unit in %/K) (see Methods in SI). Stippling represents statistical significance at 5% level in student t test.
