A statistical study of monthly storminess and sea surface temperature anomalies over the north Pacific Ocean
dc.contributor.advisor | Haney, Robert L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Little, William H. | |
dc.contributor.corporate | Naval Postgraduate School | |
dc.contributor.department | Meteorology | |
dc.contributor.secondreader | Van der Bijl, W. | |
dc.date | June 1980 | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-16T21:01:59Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-11-16T21:01:59Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1980-06 | |
dc.description.abstract | Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) and cross-correlation analysis were used to examine the interrelationship between anomalous wind forcing and anomalous sea surface temperature (SST) over the North Pacific Ocean for the period January 1969 through December 1978. Wind forcing was represented by u*3, friction velocity cubed, and curlzt, wind stress curl, as computed from: a) high-pass filtered (periods less than ten days) wind components only, b) a combination of high- and low-pass (periods greater than ten days) filtered wind components, and c) the unfiltered (total) wind components. EOF analysis was applied to the monthly anomalies to extract "signal" from "noise". Lag correlation analysis was used to investigate the relations between anomalous wind values and SST. Its was found that both u*3 and curlzt correlation maps show significant increases in correlations at zero and plus-one-month lag..(Large areas of the North Pacific Ocean were correlated at the 32% significance level and several smaller for u*3 than for curlzt and stronger for the storm-related (filtered) parameters. | en_US |
dc.description.distributionstatement | Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. | |
dc.description.service | Lieutenant Commander, United States Navy | en_US |
dc.description.uri | http://archive.org/details/astatisticalstud1094519066 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10945/19066 | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Monterey, California; Naval Postgraduate School | en_US |
dc.rights | This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States. | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Air-sea interaction | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Empirical Orthogonal Functions (EOF) | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Anomalous storminess | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Meteorology | en_US |
dc.title | A statistical study of monthly storminess and sea surface temperature anomalies over the north Pacific Ocean | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
etd.thesisdegree.discipline | Meteorology | en_US |
etd.thesisdegree.discipline | Oceanography | en_US |
etd.thesisdegree.grantor | Naval Postgraduate School | en_US |
etd.thesisdegree.level | Masters | en_US |
etd.thesisdegree.name | M.S. in Meteorology and Oceanography | en_US |
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