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Long-term persistence in the sea surface temperature fluctuations

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  • Monetti, Roberto A.
  • Havlin, Shlomo
  • Bunde, Armin

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We study the temporal correlations in the sea surface temperature (SST) fluctuations around the seasonal mean values in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. We apply a method that systematically overcome possible trends in the data. We find that the SST persistence, characterized by the correlation C(s) of temperature fluctuations separated by a time period s, displays two different regimes. In the short-time regime which extends up to roughly 10 months, the temperature fluctuations display a non-stationary behavior for both oceans, while in the asymptotic regime it becomes stationary. The long-term correlations decay as C(s)∼s−γ with γ∼0.4 for both oceans which is different from γ∼0.7 found for atmospheric land temperature.

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  • Monetti, Roberto A. & Havlin, Shlomo & Bunde, Armin, 2003. "Long-term persistence in the sea surface temperature fluctuations," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 320(C), pages 581-589.
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:320:y:2003:i:c:p:581-589
    DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(02)01662-X
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