Impact of Preceding El Niño and the Indian Ocean Dipole on the Southern China Precipitation in Early Summer
Figure 11
Composite of anomalous zonal-vertical circulation averaged in 5°S-5°N (vertical wind velocity: Pa s−1; zonal wind: m s−1) over tropical Pacific and Indian Ocean in boreal autumn of (a) single El Niño years: 1965, 1976, and 1991; (b) single P-IOD years: 1961, 1967, and 1994; (c) and the El Niño and P-IOD co-occurring years: 1963, 1972, 1982, 1987, and 1997.