they entered and so are only counted once. The total for each year is represented by the three colors combined. Bottom panels are the probability distributions of annual tropical cyclone frequency for the western (left) and eastern (right) Caribbean. Focus on the Caribbean: (a) tracks of all TCs impacting the Caribbean restricted only to ENSO Figure 9. years (Table 1) within the period 1980-2009; and (b) ocean surface temperature (shaded; C), and surface pressure (contours; millibars) averaged over the August-September-October (ASO) 3-month periods for the same set of ENSO years listed in Table 1. (c) as in (b), but for the entire North Atlantic basin. Decadal tropical cyclone activity for 1900-2009 in (a) western and (b) eastern Caribbean Figure 10. regions. The number of years in each decade designated as ENSO events is indicated by the line with the scale on the right axis (Table 1). TABLES Table 1. ENSO years within the period 1950-2009 used to compile the statistics in Fig 10. Years from 1980 forward were used for the composites depicted in Fig. 9. ENSO years designated as are indicated “strong” in bold, while italics signify ENSO events. “moderate” Decade Years used in ENSO diagnostics 1951 19501959 1957 1963 19601969 1965
they entered and so are only counted once. The total for each year is represented by the three colors combined. Bottom panels are the probability distributions of annual tropical cyclone frequency for the western (left) and eastern (right) Caribbean. Figure 9. Focus on the Caribbean: (a) tracks of all TCs impacting the Caribbean restricted only to ENSO years (Table 1) within the period 1980-2009; and (b) ocean surface temperature (shaded; C), and surface pressure (contours; millibars) averaged over the August-September-October (ASO) 3-month periods for the same set of ENSO years listed in Table 1. (c) as in (b), but for the entire North Atlantic basin. Figure 10. Decadal tropical cyclone activity for 1900-2009 in (a) western and (b) eastern Caribbean regions. The number of years in each decade designated as ENSO events is indicated by the line with the scale on the right axis (Table 1). TABLES Table 1. ENSO years within the period 1950-2009 used to compile the statistics in Fig 10. Years from 1980 forward were used for the composites depicted in Fig. 9. ENSO years designated as “strong” are indicated in bold, while italics signify “moderate” ENSO events. Decade Years used in ENSO diagnostics 19501959 1951 1957 19601969 1963 1965
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