Fig. 1: Climatological mean characteristics of observed atmospheric circulation in East Asia-western North Pacific. | Nature Communications

Fig. 1: Climatological mean characteristics of observed atmospheric circulation in East Asia-western North Pacific.

From: Increasing tropical cyclone intensity in the western North Pacific partly driven by warming Tibetan Plateau

Fig. 1

a–f 850 hPa vorticity (shaded; × 10−6  s−1) and 200 hPa flow fields from May to October in turn, in which the black thin dashed line is for topography; the black dashed box is for the monsoon trough (MT) area; “A” indicates the anticyclonic center; and the black double dashed line is for the ridge line of an anticyclone. g 850 hPa vorticity ( × 10-6 s-1) over the MT area. This figure was created using Grid Analysis and Display System (GRADS) Version 2.0.a9.oga.1 (https://sourceforge.net/projects/opengrads/files/). Source data are provided as a Source Data file.

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