Low-Frequency Variability of the Yellow Sea Cold Water Mass Identified from the China Coastal Waters and Adjacent Seas Reanalysis

Table 1

Correlation coefficients between the AO, MEI, PDO, and the YSCWM area and temperature in August, including the interannual and decadal components in both summer and winter. Values in bold are statistically significant at the 95% confidence level.

	Area	Average temperature
Interannual variability
Winter AO	−0.23	0.25
Winter MEI	−0.27	0.10
Winter PDO	0.31	−0.32
Summer AO	−0.27	0.30
Summer MEI	−0.08	0.14
Summer PDO	−0.15	0.12
Decadal variability
Winter AO	−0.49	−0.05
Winter MEI	−0.41	0.32
Winter PDO	−0.43	0.31
Summer AO	−0.29	−0.16
Summer MEI	−0.61	0.38
Summer PDO	−0.26	0.04