“…Dominant pattern of SST and Chl-a was also studied using an Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) analysis, also known as Principal Components Analysis. This analysis has already been used for other regions by (Kelly, 1985); (Lagerloef & Bernstein, 1988;Paden, Abbott, & Winant, 1991); (Fang & Hsieh, 1993) (Gallaudet & Simpson, 1994); (Hernandez-Guerra & Nykjaer, 1997), (Kavak, 2012).…”