A Study on Correlation between the Sea Surface Temperature and the Air Temperature

For the Pacific Coast of Northern Japan

Abstract

In this paper we tried a systematical investigation of the correlation between the air temperature and the sea surface temperature, using the data collected by Messrs. Utioke and Yosimura, who themselves investigated the same subject and their results and conclusions are seen in their paper published in this Journal several years ago.⁽¹⁾ As they did, we also used the monthly mean temperature.
The methods of investigation adopted by us was as follows; now we consider the anomary of the air temperature and water temperature at the sea surface for a month, and these two quantities for the preceding month, then we calculated systematically five correlation coefficients between these four quantities.
In §3 we calculated these correlation coefficients, using all the data of the whole period (1911-1928 or 1913-1928), and results of the calculation are discussed in §4.
In §6-§8 we studied on the annual variations of these correlation coefficients, and Fig. 9_??_15 show the curves of the variations of the averaged coefficients for four stations (Miyako-Isinomaki, Todosaki, Nosyappmisaki Erimomisaki).
All results and conclusions are presented in the last section §10.