Fig. 3: Spatial trends in May-July thermodynamic variables across the Caribbean. | npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Fig. 3: Spatial trends in May-July thermodynamic variables across the Caribbean.

From: Breaking the link: warming disrupts early-season rainfall predictability in the Caribbean

Fig. 3: Spatial trends in May-July thermodynamic variables across the Caribbean.The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI.

Trends in the May–July a convective available potential energy (CAPE), b convective inhibition (CIN), c 300-hPa air temperatures (T300), and d the ratio between SSTtrend and T300trend from 1979 to 2024. Hatches indicate statistical significance at the 95% confidence level. The red and white boxes highlight the CLLJ domain (13°–17°N, 80°–70°W), whereas the black contours indicate a ratio of 1, indicating similar degrees of change between SST and T300 and thus no particular change in stability. The variable fields used to generate this figure were sourced from the ERA5 reanalysis dataset.

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