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Figure 2.2.a. Time series of the 700 mb water vapor mixing ratio results of 81 SCM runs (black lines) versus observational data (blue line) for 30 August - 18 September 1974 GATE III are shown here. Each of the SCM runs was initialized with a temperature sounding corresponding to a different grid point of the objectively analyzed dataset; all other initialization and prescription data were identical for each run. The SCM was driven using horizontal advective forcing ("vertical flux mode").