Case Studies - Coastal Lagoons: Ecosystem Processes and Modeling for Sustainable Use and Development - page 378

TABLE 9.2.1
Station, Major Axis Variance, and Percent of Total Variance Explained in
Parentheses, Angle of Inclination of Major Principal Axis, and Series Length
(hours) of Low-Pass Currents Series at Stations C6, C10, C12, and C11 in
Grande-Entrée Lagoon

Major Axis
Variance/(percent
variance explained)
(m.s − 1 ) / (%)

Major Axis
Inclination (degrees) Station Number of Points (h)

C6 5.76 / (95.9%) 13.0 238

C10 7.28 / (82.0%) 32.3 186

C12 3.81 / (85%) 19.8 216

C11 2.72 / (78.8%) 26.6 188

TABLE 9.2.2
Correlation (a) and Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) (b) Analyses
of Principal Axis Low-Pass Currents at C6, C10, C12, and C11
and Winds along the Grande-Entrée Lagoon Longitudinal Axis

(a) Correlation Analysis

Station C6 C10 C12 C11 Wind

C6 1.00 0.38 0.33 0.34 -0.57

C10 0.38 1.00 0.72 0.70 -0.88

C12 0.33 0.72 1.00 0.83 -0.69

C11 0.34 0.70 0.83 1.00 -0.81

Wind -0.57 -0.88 -0.69 -0.81 1.00

(b) EOF Analysis

%
Variance
in C6

%
Variance
in C10

%
Variance
in C12

%
Variance
in C11

%
Variance
in Wind

% Variance
in All Series Mode

1 75.52 44.5 78.1 56.0 68.0 96.5

2 16.67 55.0 8.7 7.8 9.0 1.2

3 4.49 0.3 2.5 29.0 14.8 1.2

4 2.68 0.2 9.8 5.1 5.2 0.9

5 0.64 0.0 0.9 2.1 3.0 0.2