Figure 5.

Time series of monthly departures from 1980-2009 mean values (deg. C) with an 11-month moving average applied for Kericho a) Tn and b) Tx (green line), global tropical SST (25S-25N) (red line) and tropical land area mean temperature (blue line). Color bars at the bottom of the figure show the occurrence of El Niño and La Niña events (based on the definition in use at the US Climate Prediction Center). See Table 2 for temporal correlations between these variables