Research Article

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.
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