Table 2. Correlation coefficients (R) and time lags (shown as R/Lag in months; dashes mean insignificant correlation at the 95% significance level) for 3-month running averages minus 1-year averages for GS path-shifts, wind stress curl, eddy kinetic energy north of the Gulf Stream (N-EKE), CLSW transport computed off the southern coast of Nova Scotia (see text), and total river discharge. See also Figure 7. The last row indicates the correlation coefficients R for 1-year low pass of N-EKE with ASPG, wind stress curl, and GS path shifts. A positive (negative) lag indicates that the variable listed in the first column leads (lags) that listed in the first row. The 95% significance levels are shown in parentheses below each entry, and are computed as 1-(1-0.95)2/(F-1), where F is the degree of freedom calculated as N/N, N is length of time series and N is the dot product of the autocovariances of the two time series.