Fig. 3

Distributions of temperature (K; contour) and specific humidity (g kg⁻¹; shading) anomalies from the zonal means in the (a) O–M half-year and (b) A–S half-year. The contour interval is 2 K \(.\) The warm solid and cold dashed contours indicate relatively high and low temperatures, respectively. The scale of shading is shown at the bottom, and the red and blue colors indicate positive and negative anomalies, respectively of the specific humidity