Forecasts of Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures by Neural Networks and Support Vector Regression

Figure 2

The first five spacial modes (EOFs) for the SST anomaly field (1950–2005) with positive contours indicated by solid curves, negative contours by dashed curves, and zero contours thickened. Contours are multiplied by a factor of 100.

(a) EOF 1

(b) EOF 2

(c) EOF 3

(d) EOF 4

(e) EOF 5