Month-to-Month Variability of Autumn Sea Ice in the Barents and Kara Seas and Its Relationship to Winter Air Temperature in China

Table 1

Correlation coefficients between the month-to-month detrended (original) BKI, ASI, PC1, and PC2.

EOF	BKI			ASI
	9	10	11	9	10	11
PC1	0.48 (0.27)	0.42 (0.18)	0.19 (0.00)	0.40 (0.22)	0.39 (0.29)	0.18 (0.23)
PC2	0.03 (−0.16)	0.18 (0.29)	0.39 (0.47)	0.16 (0.33)	0.08 (0.27)	0.19 (0.31)

The bold font and asterisks indicate the significance exceeding 0.05 and 0.01, respectively.