Analysis on the Extreme Heat Wave over China around Yangtze River Region in the Summer of 2013 and Its Main Contributing Factors

Figure 10

(a) The correlation coefficient distribution between the SLP anomaly in the Arctic region and the total HDs in region A during 1979–2013 summer, and (b) the distribution of the SLP anomaly (hPa) in the summer of 2013. In (a), long-term trend is removed, and shaded area denotes the correlation coefficient significant at the 0.05 level.

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