PRELIMINARY RESEARCH OF THE PACIFIC-INDIAN OCEAN SSTA MODE AND DEFINITION OF ITS INDEX

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2005-02-12
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Applyingtheempiricalorthogonalfunction(EOF)analysistotheseasurfacetemperature(SST)fieldofthetropicalPacificandIndianOceansfordeterminationofthefirsteigenvectorfield,thecurrentworkrevealsthattherearesignificantzonalgradientsofSSTinallseasonsoftheyearinthenorthwesternandeasternIndianOceanandequatorialcentralandeasternPacificandwesternPacific.ItisalsofoundthatthevariancecontributionratesofthefirstEOFmodeofeveryseasonismorethan33%.ThisshowsthatthiskindofspatialdistributionoftheSSTisstable.ThispatternisnamedPacific-IndianOceansSSTAmode.Throughcarefulanalysisandcomparison,anindexofthemodewasdefined.