Synergy Effects of the Indian Summer Monsoon and the Tibetan Plateau Heating on Summer Rainfall over North China

Figure 1

(a) Spatial pattern of the first EOF analysis applied to July-August (JA) APHRODITE rainfall from 1951 to 2007. (b) Principal component corresponding to spatial pattern in (a). (c) Geographical distribution map of the correlation coefficients between JA GPCC rainfall from 1940 to 2013 and the India Subcontinent Rainfall (ISR), dark (light) shadings indicate values exceeding 99% (90%) confidence levels through student’s t test. (d) The time series of the ISR (red dashed line), rainfall over North China (NCR) (blue dashed line) and southeastern Tibetan Plateau Rainfall (TPR) (black solid line).

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