The Interannual Relationship between the Diabatic Heating over the South Asia and the Snow Depth over the Southern Tibetan Plateau in Late Spring to Early Summer: Roles of the Air Temperature

Figure 2

Climatological (1979–2004) pentad mean evolution of (a) 2 m temperature (°C) and (b) snow depth (cm) over the southern Tibetan Plateau for the different types of stations (shading) and their composites (solid lines) from pentad-1 (1–5th April) to pentad-18 (24−29th June). (c) Climatological pentad mean evolution (cm; black line) of the snow depth over the southern Tibetan Plateau from the satellite-derived snow depth data. (d) The result of 11-pentad running t-test method. The dashed lines represent the critical values at the 99.99% significance level. In (a) and (b), the red line denotes the composite result for type A stations, the black line denotes the composite result for type B stations, and the blue line denotes the composite result for type C stations.

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