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

Figure 3

The 500 hPa geopotential height departure from 5880 gpm (shaded area, gpm) of (a) the time-latitude profile and (b) the time-longitude profile and stations affected by the heat wave in region A in the summer of 2013. In (b), the right figure denotes the number of daily total stations affected by the heat wave.

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