The monthly mean sea surface temperature (SST). Chl a and daily sea surface wind (SSW) speed at Station D1 (coastal) and D5 (central) were extracted from AVHRR. SeaWiF5 and QuikSCAT products (Ocean Watch North Pacific Demonstration Project 2008) form October 1981 to November 2008, September 1997 to December 2009 and August 1999 to Octorber 2009. The resolutions of these three parameters were 0.044, 0.1 and 0.25 c.