Fig. 4: Normalized quantile–quantile diagrams for all sample intervals.
From: Modulation of late Pleistocene ENSO strength by the tropical Pacific thermocline
The reference interval is modern mixed layer temperatures (15–47 m) from Simple Ocean Data Assimilation SODA 2.1.6 reanalysis data set at 0.25°S, 155.75°W, 1958–2008, at the site of core 17PC30. Black dots represent quantiles 2–98, and gray shaded region is the 90% confidence region calculated from Monte Carlo resampling. The box outline indicates the region sensitive to El Niño amplitude change. Boxes with hatched fill display El Niño amplitude that differs from the reference interval in at least one of the 90th–98th quantiles at the 90% confidence level. Hatched boxes with heavier outlines have at least 3 of these quantiles that differ from the reference interval. Glacial-interglacial states are shown next to the age (G or I) and depicted by the box outlines (blue = glacial, orange = interglacial). Median absolute deviation (MAD) for each sample interval is listed. Non-normalized plots are found in Supplementary Fig. 9.
