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 3 Correlations a between the summer Meiyu-Baiu precipitation index and May SSTs and b between the May SST regionally averaged over the tropical Indian Ocean the box region in a and summer precipitation field. The shaded areas denote correlation at the 95% and 90% confidence level in a and b, respectively.