Atmospheric Circulation Regimes in a Nonlinear Quasi-Geostrophic Model

Figure 8

(Left) second EOF of geopotential height (gpm) of the (top) 167 hPa, (middle) 500 hPa, and (bottom) 833 hPa model level. (Right) same as left column, but for the layer-averaged NCEP-NCAR reanalysis data.