Impacts of Abnormal Heating of Tibetan Plateau on Rossby Wave Activity and Hazards Related to Snow and Ice in South China

Figure 3

Composite 500 hPa geopotential height field departure and -test for January 11–30, 2008 (a), and correlation coefficient analysis of plateau surface heating anomaly and 500 hPa geopotential height anomaly (b) (the shaded gray area is significant at 95% confidence level (-test); the solid/dotted line indicates positive/negative anomaly or connection).

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