Figure 8 Climate variability in the North Atlantic during the months December-April (a) Spatial pattern of leading Empirical Orthogonal Eigenfunction of MLD. Projection of December-April winds on the principal component time series is overlain. (b) Principal component time series and the NAO index of Barnston and Livezey (1987).
Figure 9 Standard deviation of anomaly MLD (shading) and SST (contours) averaged over the months December-April. a) North Pacific, b) North Atlantic. Units are meters and oC.
