Environmental Forcing of Red Tides in the Southern Benguela

Table 2

Pairwise cross-correlations of monthly data.

Annual	FLH	Anomaly	FLH
Algae	0.38	Algae	0.12
Phyto	0.40	Phyto	0.11
MLD	−0.88	MLD	−0.03
V curr	0.35	V curr	0.07
U curr	−0.42	U curr	−0.04
W-50	0.14	W-50	0.17
Temp	−0.92	Temp	−0.06
Salt	−0.80	Salt	0.02
SSH	−0.13	SSH	−0.09
tau 𝑋	−0.71	tau 𝑋 ec	−0.39
tau 𝑌	0.41	tau 𝑌 ec	0.27
dST/dz	0.71	dST/dz	−0.23
m SST	0.59	m SST	−0.27
oi SST	0.62	oi SST	−0.35
Vort.	−0.69	Vort.	−0.24
Qe sea	−0.95	Tair	0.16
Qe 2.5%	−0.74	S salt	0.16
		tau 𝑋 cf	−0.38
90% confidence (bold)		tau 𝑌 cf	0.33
| r | > 0.80 annual cycle		W 700	0.10
| r | > 0.30 anomaly series		Qe sea	−0.28