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

Table 5

Correlation coefficients between EOF1, EOF2, and EOF3 of summer heat flux, wind stress, and winter AO, ENSO, and PDO, including the interannual and decadal components. Bold texts indicate that the correlations are statistically significant at the 95% confidence level.

		Summer AO	Summer MEI	Summer PDO
Interannual variability	EOF1 of summer heat flux	−0.07	0.01	0.01
	EOF2 of summer heat flux	0.04	0.09	0.13
	EOF3 of summer heat flux	−0.01	0.17	0.12
	EOF1 of summer wind stress	0.01	0.01	−0.05
	EOF2 of summer wind stress	−0.04	0.11	0.12
	EOF3 of summer wind stress	−0.01	0.11	0.15
Decadal variability	EOF1 of summer heat flux	0.08	−0.13	0.14
	EOF2 of summer heat flux	0.41	0.47	0.26
	EOF3 of summer heat flux	−0.40	−0.61	−0.79
	EOF1 of summer wind stress	−0.57	−0.36	−0.48
	EOF2 of summer wind stress	0.15	−0.07	−0.03
	EOF3 of summer wind stress	−0.02	0.31	0.04