Fig. 5.

Composite annual cycle for the Barbados region using all available years. Climate models are shown by colors, and satellite or reanalysis are black and gray. The coloring of the models is based on the vertical velocity in the warm season, with warm hues used for models that are more convective than ERA-Interim and cool hues used for those that are less convective (the scale is otherwise arbitrary). (Left) Cloud characteristics (total CC, low-cloud cover, high-cloud cover, and shortwave CRE, from top to bottom) and (Right) environmental parameters (midtropospheric vertical pressure velocity (${\omega }_{500}$), lower-tropospheric stability, relative humidity difference between 700 hPa and 850 hPa, and inversion pressure level, from top to bottom).