Abstract
Approximately sixty seven months (January 1978 through September 1983) of monthly anomaly data for the fields of sea surface temperature, mean sea level pressure and high cloud amount over the Northwest Pacific have been used to investigate the linear relationships between these parameters. Linear relationships were sought using the empirical orthogonal function technique on the data fields stratified into summer and winter data sets. The first winter eigenvector/amplitude coefficient pair resembled an El Nino/Southern Oscillation event. No other statistically significant eigenvector/amplitude coefficient pairs were obtained. Generally the relationships between the three pairs of variables were statistically insignificant.
