Fig. 7: Horizontal distribution of upper-level geopotential and surface temperature at the peak of expansion. | npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Fig. 7: Horizontal distribution of upper-level geopotential and surface temperature at the peak of expansion.

From: What controls the interannual variation of Hadley cell extent in the Northern Hemisphere: physical mechanism and empirical model for edge variation

Fig. 7

Composites of a geopotential height (contour, m) and zonal wind (shading, m s−1) at 500 hPa and b skin temperature (K) for high-minus-low HCE latitude years. Stippling indicates a significant region at the 95% confidence level.

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