Research Article

Month-to-Month Variability of Autumn Sea Ice in the Barents and Kara Seas and Its Relationship to Winter Air Temperature in China

Figure 7

Composite differences for the SON mean upper ocean heat content (shaded) between selected low and high DBKI in September (a), October (b), and November (c) (unit: K). (d–f) The same as (a), (b), and (c) but for DJF mean upward longwave radial (shaded) and sensible + latent heat flux (contour) (unit: w·m−2). The dotted areas denote the values that are statistically significant with significance exceeding 0.1 based on the results of t-tests for heat content in (a), (b), and (c) and longwave radiation in (d), (e), and (f).