Meso-Alpha Scale Tropospheric Interactions within the Western Mediterranean Basin: Statistical Results Using 15-Year NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Dataset

Table 1

Statistics for linear regressions (coastal wind direction as a function of the divergence over the Mediterranean) over the four selected areas in the WBM.

Statistics between coastal wind direction and divergence over the sea
	Night			Day
	Linear correlation		Significance level	Linear correlation		Significance level
Spain		0.31	0.05		0.64	0.01
France		0.02	0.7		0.04	0.5
Italy		0.00	0.9		0.62	0.01
Africa		0.34	0.05	+ 104.4	0.78	0.01

is the Pearson coefficient; the significance level corresponds to Fisher -test and the independent variable; “” is the divergence value over the sea.