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. 2022 Aug 10;608(7923):546–551. doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05093-2

Extended Data Fig. 6. Air temperature, open water, and winter precipitation correlate in northwest Arctic of Alaska.

Extended Data Fig. 6

a Sum of December through March precipitation (square-root transformed) in Kotzebue, AK 1979-2019. Pearson’s correlation with October open water in Chukchi Sea: r = 0.41 (t = 2.73, df = 38, p = 0.009). b Extent of October open water in Chukchi Sea 1979-2019. Pearson’s correlation with July Kotzebue temperature: r = 0.37 (t = 2.45, df = 38, p = 0.02). c Mean daily July air temperatures at Kotzebue airport. Blue curves are loess fits. Note that precipitation scale is square-root transformed.