Interrelationships between cloud properties and sea surface temperatures on seasonal and interannual time scales

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Monthly means of selected variables of the 2.5° International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) C2 total cloud cover (CC), cloud-top pressure (CTP), and cloud water (CW) are statistically related to sea surface temperature (SST). The statistical tools utilized include intra- and interannual correlation, regression, and composite empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analyses. The dominant intra- and interannual composite EOFs all show that CC, CTP, and CW departures have spatially coherent links with those of SST. The second most important intra-annual functions also show coherent relations, which are about three months out of phase with those of the dominant functions. The regression analysis suggests that this phase relation may be explained by significant correlations of the cloud variables with not only SST, but also with the time derivative of SST (dSST/dt). At middle and high latitudes other relationships exist, such that larger CCs may be associated with decreased SSTs, or higher CTPs may be related to higher SSTs. -from Author

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Weare, B. C. (1994). Interrelationships between cloud properties and sea surface temperatures on seasonal and interannual time scales. Journal of Climate, 7(2), 248–260. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(1994)007<0248:IBCPAS>2.0.CO;2

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