Persistence of Snow Cover Anomalies over the Tibetan Plateau and the Implications for Forecasting Summer Precipitation over the Meiyu-Baiu Region
LIU Ge1, WU Ren-Guang2, ZHANG Yuan-Zhi2,3
Figure 2 a Spatial distribution of correlation coefficients between the May SCAP index and summer precipitation for the period 1979-2006 with the shaded areas denoting correlation at the 90% confidence level. b The normalized time series of the May SCAP index solid line with dots and the summer Meiyu-Baiu precipitation index dashed line with circles; correlation coefficient is 0.51.