Atmospheric Circulation Regimes in a Nonlinear Quasi-Geostrophic Model

Table 1

Spatial correlation coefficients of dominant variability patterns (EOF1 and EOF2) between the atmospheric levels for reanalysis data and the control runs of the quasi-geostrophic model with T63 and T21 resolution.

	NCEP; EOF1	CTRL T63; EOF1	CTRL T21; EOF1	NCEP; EOF2	CTRL T63; EOF2	CTRL T21; EOF2
Lower-middle level	0.84	0.98	0.88	0.81	0.92	0.71
Middle-upper level	0.79	0.72	0.65	0.35	0.22	0.03
Lower-upper level	0.88	0.76	0.61	0.38	0.1	0.52