Ab breviations
AGCM
BP
CART
CCA
COADS
ECMWF
ENSO
EOF
GCM
GISS
LODYC
MPI
MSE
MSSA
NAO
NHMM
NMC
PIP
PNA
POP
PP
SNR
SO
SSA
SST
SVD
T-EOF
ST-EOF
atmospheric General Circulation Model
bootstrap procedure
Classification and Regression Trees
Canonical Correlation Analysis
Comprehensive Atmosphere Ocean Data Set
European Centre for Medium Range Forecast
EI Nifio Southern Oscillation
Empirical Orthogonal Function
General Circulation Model
Goddard Institut for Space Studies
Laboratoire d'Oceanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie
Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie
mean square error
Multichannel Singular Spectrum Analysis
North Atlantic Oscillation
Nonhomogeneous Hidden Markov Model
National Meteorological Centre, USA
Principal Interaction Pattern
Pacific North-America Pattern
Principal Oscillation Pattern
permutation procedure
signal-to-noise ratio
Southern Oscillation
Singular Spectrum Analysis
sea-surface temperature
Singular Value Decomposition
Time EOF
Space-Time EOFs