Recent Changes in the Annual Mean Regional Hadley Circulation and Their Impacts on South America

Figure 9

Annual mean temperature (K) anomaly at 850 hPa for HCSA strong cases in the period 1996–2011 based on the (a) Era-Interim reanalysis and (b) RegCM4 simulation. Contour intervals are 0.1 K and significant values above 90% confidence level from two-tailed Student’s -test are shaded.

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