Potential analyses to look into

[andrew-edwards]

• Charles finds that 50% of SST variability in BC is due to El Nino etc, the rest correlates with nothing.
• Doing an empirical orthogonal function analysis, 1st mode found that whole coast (California to here I think) goes up and down together with El Nino. 2nd mode is a north/south see-saw with BC being null (the pivot). 3rd was to do with California Current, and had to keep going a few more I think to get anything to do with BC.
• Charles has found these types of plots to be particularly effective (these data are for over >100 years, so showing every year as a line does get overwhelming): http://bcrfc.env.gov.bc.ca/lowflow/drought_interactive/08MF005.html
• R package pals has lots of ocean palettes, could be worth looking into (though adds a dependency).