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Fig. 10

From: Spatiotemporal vertical velocity variation in the western tropical Pacific and its relation to decadal ocean variability

Fig. 10

First EOF mode of vertical velocity w in the region of \(10^{\circ }\)–\(25^{\circ }\)N, \(120^{\circ }\)E–\(180^{\circ }\) and the layer from 100 to 1000 m depths. The w data were smoothed by a 15-month running mean filter. Loadings of the EOF mode at depths of 100 m and 200 m are shown in panels a and b, respectively. Dotted square delineate the region where Nagano et al. (2016a) studied the QD variation and solid square the region (Region A) where we calculated vertical volume and temperature transports and SST tendency due to vertical current variation as in Fig. 14. Sections of the EOF mode loading at zonal \(12.6^{\circ }\)N and meridional \(145.4^{\circ }\)E lines (thin solid lines) in a and b are indicated in panels c and d, respectively. Contour intervals are 0.001

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