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

Table 3

Correlation coefficients between EOF1, EOF2, and EOF3 of wind stress 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-YSCWM	T-YSCWM
Interannual variability
EOF1 of winter wind stress	−0.33	0.33
EOF2 of winter wind stress	0.08	−0.09
EOF3 of winter wind stress	−0.31	0.27
EOF1 of summer wind stress	−0.07	0.11
EOF2 of summer wind stress	0.15	−0.07
EOF3 of summer wind stress	−0.08	0.12
Decadal variability
EOF1 of winter wind stress	−0.13	−0.23
EOF2 of winter wind stress	−0.56	0.75
EOF3 of winter wind stress	0.31	0.08
EOF1 of summer wind stress	0.19	0.56
EOF2 of summer wind stress	−0.19	0.14
EOF3 of summer wind stress	−0.39	0.48