Figure 2. Tropical Atlantic zonal wind stress (dynes/cm2, left panels) and meridional wind stress (dynes/cm2; right panels) mean (top panels) and model minus observations difference distributions (center and bottom panels). Wind stress observations are obtained from QSCAT.
Figure 3. (a-c) Horizontal distribution of the month of deepest 28.5°C isotherm from the long-term mean. The numbers 1 to 12 correspond to the months from January to December. The Pacific data has been masked. (d-f) Seasonal cycle of the volume (black line) of the 28.5°C isotherm between 40°S-40°N and above 250 meters of depth. The orange lines are the +/- standard deviation. The top and middle panels (a-b; d-e) are the observational products. The CCSM4 ensemble mean is used for the bottom panels (c, f).
