The Space and Time Features of Global SST Anomalies Studied by Complex Principal Component Analysis

Silvia Alessio; Arnaldo Longhetto; Luo Meixia

doi:10.1007/s00376-999-0001-8

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The Space and Time Features of Global SST Anomalies Studied by Complex Principal Component Analysis

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Dipartimento di Fisica Generale, Universita di Torino, Turin, Italy and lstituto di Cosmogeofisica del CNR, Turin, Italy;ICSC-World Laboratory, Lausanne, Switzerland,Dipartimento di Fisica Generale, Universita di Torino, Turin, Italy and lstituto di Cosmogeofisica del CNR, Turin, Italy;ICSC-World Laboratory, Lausanne, Switzerland,Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, and International Centre of Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

doi: 10.1007/s00376-999-0001-8

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In this paper, the variability characteristics of the global field of sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly are studied by complex principal component (c.p.c.) analysis, whose results are also com?pared with those of real p.c. analysis. The data consist of 40 years of global SST monthly averages over latitudes from 42.5oS to 67.5oN. In the spatial domain, it is found that the distribution of the first complex loading amplitude is characterized by three areas of large values: the first one in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific Ocean, the second one in the northern tropical Indian Ocean and South China Sea, the third one in the northern Pacific Ocean. As it will be explained, this pat?tern may be considered as representative of El Ni?o mode. The first complex loading phase pattern shows a stationary wave in the Pacific (also revealed by real p.c. analysis) superimposed to an oscil?lating disturbance, propagating from the Pacific to Indian or the opposite way. A subsequent cor?relation analysis among different spatial points allows revealing disturbances actually propagating westward from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean, which could therefore represent reflected Rossby waves, i.e. the west phase of the signals that propagate disturbances of thermal structure in the tropical Pacific Ocean. In the time domain, a relation between the trend of the first complex prin?cipal component and the ENSO cycle is also established.
- Global sea surface temperature anomalies,
- ENSO,
- Complex principal component ana-lysis,
- Travelling disturbances
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Manuscript received: 10 January 1999

Manuscript revised: 10 January 1999

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沈阳化工大学材料科学与工程学院沈阳 110142

The Space and Time Features of Global SST Anomalies Studied by Complex Principal Component Analysis

1. Dipartimento di Fisica Generale, Universita di Torino, Turin, Italy and lstituto di Cosmogeofisica del CNR, Turin, Italy;ICSC-World Laboratory, Lausanne, Switzerland,Dipartimento di Fisica Generale, Universita di Torino, Turin, Italy and lstituto di Cosmogeofisica del CNR, Turin, Italy;ICSC-World Laboratory, Lausanne, Switzerland,Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, and International Centre of Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

Manuscript received: 1999-01-10
Manuscript revised: 1999-01-10

Abstract: In this paper, the variability characteristics of the global field of sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly are studied by complex principal component (c.p.c.) analysis, whose results are also com?pared with those of real p.c. analysis. The data consist of 40 years of global SST monthly averages over latitudes from 42.5oS to 67.5oN. In the spatial domain, it is found that the distribution of the first complex loading amplitude is characterized by three areas of large values: the first one in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific Ocean, the second one in the northern tropical Indian Ocean and South China Sea, the third one in the northern Pacific Ocean. As it will be explained, this pat?tern may be considered as representative of El Ni?o mode. The first complex loading phase pattern shows a stationary wave in the Pacific (also revealed by real p.c. analysis) superimposed to an oscil?lating disturbance, propagating from the Pacific to Indian or the opposite way. A subsequent cor?relation analysis among different spatial points allows revealing disturbances actually propagating westward from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean, which could therefore represent reflected Rossby waves, i.e. the west phase of the signals that propagate disturbances of thermal structure in the tropical Pacific Ocean. In the time domain, a relation between the trend of the first complex prin?cipal component and the ENSO cycle is also established.

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