Fig. 8: Changes in the North American cold and heavy precipitation extremes during constructive interference events for the recent historical and late twenty-first century winters in the SPEAR model. | Nature Communications

Fig. 8: Changes in the North American cold and heavy precipitation extremes during constructive interference events for the recent historical and late twenty-first century winters in the SPEAR model.

From: The driving of North American climate extremes by North Pacific stationary-transient wave interference

Fig. 8

Pentad composites of changes in occurrence relative to the climatological frequency of occurrence of (A–F) cold extremes (below the 5th percentile of daily minimum temperature) and (G–L) heavy precipitation extremes (above the 95th percentile of daily precipitation) averaged over (A, B, G, H) lag days −2 to +2, and (C, D, J, K) +3 to +7 during constructive interference events for (A, D, G, J) (left) the recent historical winters, (B, E, H, K) (center) late twenty-first century winters, and (C, F, I, L) (right) differences between the two periods. Stippling indicates where at least 80% of the ensemble members agree with the sign. Boxes denote the same domains as in Fig. 2.

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