Table 1 Frequency of the number of days when the pattern correlation between the Perth HW SST composite (Fig. 2) and daily SST anomalies falls within each 0.1 correlation bin, using ERA-Interim data.

From: On the use of composite analyses to form physical hypotheses: An example from heat wave – SST associations

  1. Results are computed for the entire 3150 days in DJF (black values) and for the 25 HW days selected in DJF (bold italic) during 19792014, and are shown separately for the SH, SIO, SIO - West pole, SIO - East pole, and the SIO - two poles domains (shown in Fig. 2).