Research Article

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

Table 2

Correlation coefficients between EOF1, EOF2, and EOF3 of heat flux and A-YSCWM, T-YSCWM in August, including the interannual and decadal components in both summer and winter. Bold texts indicate that the correlations are statistically significant at the 95% confidence level.

A-YSCWMT-YSCWM

Interannual variability
EOF1 of winter heat flux −0.320.37
EOF2 of winter heat flux−0.160.14
EOF3 of winter heat flux0.04−0.08
EOF1 of summer heat flux−0.130.07
EOF2 of summer heat flux0.040.03
EOF3 of summer heat flux0.170.01

Decadal variability
EOF1 of winter heat flux 0.74−0.08
EOF2 of winter heat flux0.02−0.33
EOF3 of winter heat flux0.02−0.39
EOF1 of summer heat flux0.59−0.64
EOF2 of summer heat flux−0.56−0.11
EOF3 of summer heat flux0.22−0.12