Fig. 3: Relationship between North Atlantic SST and European climate. | npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Fig. 3: Relationship between North Atlantic SST and European climate.

From: Fast reduction of Atlantic SST threatens Europe-wide gross primary productivity under positive and negative CO2 emissions

Fig. 3: Relationship between North Atlantic SST and European climate.The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI.

Regressed JJA observed patterns of surface temperature (a), precipitation (b), total soil moisture within the top 1 m (c), GPP (d), geopotential height at 300 hPa (e, GPH300, with a contour interval of 10 m/K, negative values shown with dashed lines), cloud cover (e, shading) and geopotential height at 850 hPa (f, GPH850, with a contour interval of 2 m/K, negative values shown with dashed lines) and wind (f, vectors) onto North Atlantic SST averaged over 50°W-20°W, 40°N-60°N). The analysis uses data from 2003-2021 and all data are detrended. g–l Difference in the composite of 2 m temperature (g), precipitation (h), total soil moisture within the top 1 m (i), GPP (j), GPH300 (k, with a contour interval of 10 m, negative value shown with dashed lines) and cloud cover (k, shading), GPH850 (l, with a contour interval of 2 m, negative value shown with dashed lines), and wind (l, vectors) between NASST-1°C and NASST + 1 °C model experiments. Twenty ensemble mean data for each experiment are used. Dotted areas represent a 95% significant level. Hatched areas denote a 95% significant level for GPH300 and GPH850.

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