Impact of Preceding El Niño and the Indian Ocean Dipole on the Southern China Precipitation in Early Summer

Figure 5

Composite of precipitation anomalies in next June of single El Niño years 1965, 1976, and 1991 (a); single P-IOD years 1961, 1967, and 1994 (b); and both El Niño and P-IOD co-occurring years 1963, 1972, 1982, 1987, and 1997 (c) (shaded area denotes precipitation anomaly exceeding 20 mm month⁻¹).

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