Connections between the time vs. depth profiles of changes in meridional flow (δU_θ) and those in the radial gradient of rotation (﹩\delta (\partial \,\mathrm{log}\,{\rm{\Omega }}/\partial \,\mathrm{log}\,r)﹩). The top and middle panels show δU_θ for the northern and southern latitudes (20°, 25°, and 30°), respectively. The north–south symmetric component of changes in δ(∂logΩ/∂logr) is shown in the bottom row for latitudes 10°, 15°, and 20°. The two vertical dashed lines in each panel mark the cycle 24 maximum (2014) and minimum (2020), and the horizontal dotted lines mark the depth 0.97 R_⊙. All the results here are from the HMI data.