Distribution of Atmospheric Aerosol over the South China Sea

Table 3

The contribution of eigenvalue at each EOF mode of AOT_F.

EOF mode	Contributing to variance; (typical errors) (%)	Cumulative; variance (%)
1	70.4 (61.32~79.49)	70.40
2	11.90 (10.37~13.44)	82.30
3	3.11 (2.71~3.51)	85.41
4	2.19 (1.90~2.47)	87.60
5	1.43 (1.24~1.61)	89.03
6	1.15 (1.00~1.29)	90.18