Atmospheric Circulation Regimes in a Nonlinear Quasi-Geostrophic Model

Table 3

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

	NCEP-T63 EOF1	NCEP-T21 EOF1	NCEP-T63 EOF2	NCEP-T21 EOF2
Lower level	0.81	0.85	0.4	0.03
Middle level	0.63	0.53	0.26	0.1
Upper level	0.93	0.42	0.51	0.35