Table 1 Correlations between the summer large-scale atmospheric circulation and upper ocean temperature in fall and summer.

From: Recent upper Arctic Ocean warming expedited by summertime atmospheric processes

 

JJA Z300

JJA tropospheric air temp

SON upper ocean temp

Corr (with trend)

0.56

0.74

Corr (without trend)

0.48

0.66

JJA upper ocean temp

Corr (with trend)

0.53

0.69

Corr (without trend)

0.45

0.57

  1. Correlations of JJA/SON Arctic Ocean domain-average upper (0–50 m average) ocean temperature with JJA domain-average Z300 and tropospheric (surface to 300 hPa average) air temperature with trends and without trends respectively.
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