Fig. 3: The CPAC-forced circulation anomalies driving extreme high temperatures on the eastern Antarctic Peninsula. | Nature Communications

Fig. 3: The CPAC-forced circulation anomalies driving extreme high temperatures on the eastern Antarctic Peninsula.

From: Central tropical Pacific convection drives extreme high temperatures and surface melt on the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula

Fig. 3: The CPAC-forced circulation anomalies driving extreme high temperatures on the eastern Antarctic Peninsula.The alt text for this image may have been generated using AI.

(top) The 24 March 2015 and (bottom) 6 February 2020 record-high temperature events. a The OLR (shaded), 200 hPa streamfunction (contoured) and 200 hPa stationary wave flux (vectors) anomalies and b surface air temperature (T2m, shaded), MSLP (contoured), and 10 m wind (vectors) anomalies for 22–26 March 2015, and c the vertically integrated moisture flux (IVT; shaded, vectors), MSLP (contours), and outline of the landfalling AR (green contour; IVT exceeding 85th percentile) and AR axis (yellow line; a pathway of maximum IVT) (Methods) at 06 UTC 24 March 2015. d, e are as in a, b except for 4–8 February 2020 and d is for the 850 hPa level, and (f) is as in (c) except for 06 UTC 6 February 2020. The CPAC OLR region is denoted with a black box in the upper left corner of (a, d), and the location of the high and low-pressure centers is given as an “H” and “L”, respectively, in (b, e).

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