Seasonality of Tropical Instability Waves and Its Feedback to the Seasonal Cycle in the Tropical Eastern Pacific

Figure 5

Longitude-time plot of the climatological cycle of the 30-day moving variance of filtered temperature (a) and meridional current (b), and barotropic (c) and baroclinic (d) conversion rates averaged between 0 and 5°N over the upper 50 m. Units are W/m³ for (c) and (d).

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