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Articles | Volume 18, issue 3
Articles | Volume 18, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-18-839-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-18-839-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 3
Research article
 | 
08 Jun 2022
Research article |  | 08 Jun 2022

Seasonal extrema of sea surface temperature in CMIP6 models

Yanxin Wang, Karen J. Heywood, David P. Stevens, and Gillian M. Damerell

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-18-839-2022-supplement

Data sets

World Ocean Atlas 2018. Temperature Tim P. Boyer, Hernán E. García, Ricardo A. Locarnini, Melissa M. Zweng, Alexey V. Mishonov, James R. Reagan, Katharine A. Weathers, Olga K. Baranova, Christopher R.Paver, Dan Seidov, and Igor V. Smolyar https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/NCEI-WOA18

WOCE-Argo Global Hydrographic Climatology (WAGHC Version 1.0) Viktor Gouretski https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/WAGHC_V1.0

Global analyses of sea surface temperature, sea ice, and night marine air temperature since the late nineteenth century (http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadisst/) N. A. Rayner, D. E. Parker, E. B. Horton, C. K. Folland, L. V. Alexander, D. P. Rowell, E. C. Kent, and A. Kaplan https://doi.org/10.1029/2002jd002670

Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) data CMIP https://esgf-index1.ceda.ac.uk/

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Short summary
It is important that climate models give accurate projections of future extremes in summer and winter sea surface temperature because these affect many features of the global climate system. Our results demonstrate that some models would give large errors if used for future projections of these features, and models with more detailed representation of vertical structure in the ocean tend to have a better representation of sea surface temperature, particularly in summer.
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