Temporal coherence in North Pacific sea-surface temperature patterns

摘要: Temporal coherence between monthly mean temperature patterns for the sea surface of North Pacific is far greater than any known meteorological coherence, has a smooth non-Markovian die-away with increasing lag, and greatest when preceded by cold season months. When stratified according to initial month, data show striking tendency pattern recurrence from one nonsummer month subsequent months out two years except summer. Apparently this due storage anomalously or warm water that shielded shallow layer in summer but stirred up increased wind stress during