Fig. 5: Atmospheric forcing during rising (falling) SST anomalies from the southeastern Barents Sea, with co-occurrence of MHWs (MCSs) show enhanced magnitudes during MHWs (MCSs). | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 5: Atmospheric forcing during rising (falling) SST anomalies from the southeastern Barents Sea, with co-occurrence of MHWs (MCSs) show enhanced magnitudes during MHWs (MCSs).

From: Interplay of atmosphere and ocean amplifies summer marine extremes in the Barents Sea at different timescales

Fig. 5

All panels show composite means satisfying (1) the presence of an MHW or MCS relative to a linearly shifting baseline (1981–2021; Fig. 2b); the reference time series (Fig. 2b) is a spatial average of the southeastern Barents Sea (dotted dark gray and white line). (2) The temperature tendency of the SST anomalies (see methods section), a–c positive for MHWs; d–f negative for MCSs. The panel columns show from left to right anomalies of (left; a and d) mean sea level pressure (MSLP); (center; b, e) 2-meter air temperature (T2M); (right; c, f) net surface air-sea heat flux (Qnet). Gray hatches in each panel indicate statistical significance levels, with no hatches drawn where the highest level of significance occurs (p < 0.005). The complement of these composites (i.e., rising and falling temperatures outside their respective extremes) are shown in Supplementary Fig. 3.

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