Table 3.
The relationship between the mean monthly snow depths measured at the Värriö weather station and the mean monthly temperature and large-scale climate indices in 1978–2012 (Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient). The significance levels of correlations: p < 0.05* and p < 0.01**
| Snow depth | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | |
| Temperature | ||||||||
| Oct | −0.66** | −0.51** | −0.35* | −0.40* | −0.35* | −0.35* | ||
| Nov | −0.59** | |||||||
| Dec | −0.36* | |||||||
| Apr | −0.46** | −0.52** | ||||||
| May | −0.49** | |||||||
| Teleconnection | ||||||||
| Sep_AO | −0.48** | |||||||
| Oct_AO | −0.35* | −0.38* | ||||||
| Oct_NAO | −0.34** | |||||||
| Oct_SCA | −0.35* | |||||||
| Jan_SCA | −0.38* | −0.46** | ||||||
| Mar_NAO | 0.39* | |||||||