Table 3. Pearson correlation coefficient values representing the correlation between climate indices (NAO = North Atlantic Oscillation index; AO = Arctic Oscillation index; NP = North Pacific index) and mean annual winter (January–March) temperature and total annual winter precipitation in Fennoscandia and in the range of each Russian reindeer population.
| Temperature | Precipitation | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NAO | AO | NP | NAO | AO | NP | |
| Norway | 0.78 | 0.78 | 0.20 | 0.42 | 0.52 | -0.11 |
| Sweden | 0.77 | 0.76 | 0.14 | 0.52 | 0.47 | -0.12 |
| Finland | 0.72 | 0.68 | 0.15 | NA | NA | NA |
| Murmansk | 0.69 | 0.65 | 0.16 | 0.28 | 0.31 | -0.24 |
| Arkhangelsk | 0.69 | 0.64 | 0.04 | 0.30 | 0.37 | -0.13 |
| Komi | 0.61 | 0.54 | -0.10 | 0.41 | 0.40 | -0.13 |
| Yamal | 0.58 | 0.53 | -0.13 | 0.28 | 0.31 | -0.19 |
| Sakha | 0.56 | 0.61 | -0.01 | -0.14 | -0.07 | 0.29 |
| Chukotka | -0.04 | 0.01 | 0.14 | -0.23 | -0.15 | 0.31 |
| Kamchatka | 0.04 | -0.01 | -0.01 | -0.15 | -0.04 | 0.25 |
| Taymyr | 0.57 | 0.56 | -0.07 | 0.18 | 0.23 | -0.12 |
Statistically significant values (p<0.05) are highlighted in bold. F = Fennoscandia; R = Russia. Precipitation data for Finland were not available (NA; see Methods section for details).