Fig. 3: Climate teleconnection between the North Atlantic region and Tibetan Plateau.
From: Unexpected cold season warming during the Little Ice Age on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau
a Composite differences in the sea level pressure (SLP) between the warm (1995–2018) and cold AMV phases (1963–1994). b Schematic diagram of the climate teleconnection between the North Atlantic region and Tibetan Plateau. Warm North Atlantic temperature anomalies induce an east-west dipole pattern of SLP across the Atlantic-Eurasia region, with low-pressure anomalies over the North Atlantic and high-pressure anomalies over the Tibetan Plateau. This pattern generates strong upward motion and upper-level divergence over the North Atlantic, resulting in upper-level outflows that converge eastward to the Tibetan Plateau, and subsequently subside over the Tibetan Plateau. The base map in the schematic diagram was obtained from ETOPO1, a 1 arc-minute global relief model of Earth’s surface that integrates land topography and ocean bathymetry (https://ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/relief/ETOPO1/tiled/).
