The association between sea surface temperature (SST) over North Atlantic Ocean and summer convection over South America and adjacent areas is studied using the principal components analysis, singular value decomposition (SVD) analysis and linear correlation. Only third mode of variability of the SST anomalies over North Atlantic Ocean is associated with summer convection over South America. It explains 9.4% of the variance. The results show that the positive (negative) SST anomalies in the North Atlantic Equatorial and subtropical (tropical) are associated with the summer convecction over the northernmost region of the South America.
North Atlantic; South America; SST; convection
