Atmospheric Circulation Regimes in a Nonlinear Quasi-Geostrophic Model

Table 2

Explained percentage of total variance by the dominant variability patterns (EOF1 and EOF2) for reanalysis data and the control run of the quasi-geostrophic model with T63 resolution.

	NCEP EOF1	CTRL T63 EOF1	NCEP EOF2	CTRL T63 EOF2
Lower level	29.7%	22.4%	12.4%	7.4%
Middle level	16.1%	14.2%	12.2%	6.8%
Upper level	18.6%	23.9%	14.1%	12.1%