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Chapter 2: Misuses
Figure 2.1: Labitzke' and van Loon 's relationship between solar fIux and
the temperature at 30 hPa at the North Pole tor a11 winters during which the
QBO is in its West Phase and in its East Phase. The correlations are 0.1,
0.8 and -0.5. (From Labitzke ~nd van Loon, 1988).
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