Spatial and Temporal Variability of Sea Surface Temperature in Eastern Marginal Seas of China

Figure 5

Lead and lag correlation between detrended spatial mean value of sea surface net heat flux anomaly and NINO3 SSTA index obtained from http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/data/indices/ersst4.nino.mth.81-10.ascii (blue line; lag > 0 means NINO3 lead), between EMSC SST interannual index and detrended spatial mean value of sea surface net heat flux anomaly (black line; lag > 0 means heat flux lead), and between EMSC SST interannual index and NINO3 SSTA index (green line; lag > 0 means NINO3 lead).