Figure 7
From: Response of Near-Inertial Shear to Wind Stress Curl and Sea Level
Ensemble and scatter plots of mean near-inertial downward shear energy (S2) with different wind stress curls and SLAs. Vertical distributions of hourly S2 averaged over ensembles of (a) weak, moderate, and strong wind stress curls and (b) negative, reference, and positive SLAs. For each ensemble, 95% confidence intervals derived from the bootstrap method are indicated by horizontal bars. Scatter diagrams of forcing curls versus case mean (color large dots) and hourly-profile mean (small gray dots) S2 over (c) 80–170 m and (d) 190–330 m (denoted by dashed box in panel a), with color depicting SLA. Scatter diagrams of SLA with case mean (color large dots) and hourly-profile mean (small gray dots) S2 over (c) 80–110 m and (d) 110–240 m (denoted by dashed box in panel b), with color depicting forcing curl. The ensemble ranges, the corresponding numbers of cases (number before slash in bracket) and hourly profiles (number after slash in bracket) are denoted in each panel. In (c–f), the number centered in large dots denotes the case serial number, vertical dashed lines serve as a guide to separate different ensembles, and three bold horizontal lines indicate the average value of case mean S2 over different ensembles. Figures are plotted using MATLAB R2015b (http://www.mathworks.com/).
