Atlantic Meridional Mode (AMM):
Description: The mode describes the meridional variabilty in the tropical Atlantic Ocean. A similar mode but for the Pacific is available.
Variabilidad meridional de la zona tropical del Océano Atlántico (análogo a ENSO).
Calculation Method: The AMM spatial pattern is defined via applying Maximum Covariance Analysis (MCA) to sea surface temperature (SST; left field) and the zonal and meridional components of the 10m wind field (right field) over the time period 1950-2005, from the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis. To define the spatial pattern, data are defined over the region (21S-32N, 74W-15E), and spatially smoothed (three longitude by two latitude points). The seasonal cycle is removed, data are detrended, a three-month running mean is applied to the data, and the linear fit to the Cold Tongue Index (a measure of ENSO variability) is subtracted from each spatial point. Spatial patterns are defined as the first left (SST) and right (winds) maps resulting from singular value decomposition of the covariance matrix between the two fields. The AMM time series below is calculated via projecting SST or the 10m wind field (detrended, CTI removed, but no 3-month running mean) onto the spatial structure resulting from the MCA above. A ver si no lo he entendido mal: Se define a través de la aplicación de la máxima desviación con respecto a la media (covarianza máxima) de la SsT y por otro lado, del viento zonal a 10m (dos formas de medir) durante el período 1950-2005, a partir del NCEP / NCAR reanálisis a través de la región (21S-32N, 74W-15E), y espacialmente suavizadas (tres de longitud por dos puntos de latitud). El ciclo estacional se elimina para eliminar tendencia estacional... Y luego la explicación de la representación de los dos mapas (?)
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/times ... nthly/AMM/