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. 2017 Sep 28;8:731. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00820-0

Fig. 5.

Fig. 5

Attribution of western Ross Sea ice area trends to the October zonal winds trends. a Trends in gridded October zonal winds for 1979–2015 from ERA-Interim in the colored shading in units of m s–1 per decade. Black contours indicate the correlation of the October zonal wind index and March western Ross Sea ice area (as also shown in Fig. 1d). b The two regions used for averaging the zonal wind anomalies. c The correlation of monthly western Ross Sea ice area and October zonal wind anomalies averaged for the two regions shown on b. d The fraction of the observed monthly trend in western Ross Sea ice area that is attributable to the October zonal wind trend averaged for the two regions. In c and d, the color of the line corresponds to the use of wind data that is averaged for the associated colored region in b