Seasonality of Tropical Instability Waves and Its Feedback to the Seasonal Cycle in the Tropical Eastern Pacific
Figure 4
The 50-year climatological mean of the 30-day moving variance of filtered temperature (a) and meridional current (b), and barotropic (c) and baroclinic (d) conversion rates averaged between 160–100°W, and over the upper 50 m. Units are W/m3 for (c) and (d). Negative values are shaded.