Hello everyone, at AWI we were having yet another look at the SST biases of the coupled climate simulations made with OpenIFS 43r3 - FESOM2, but also at ECE3(IFS36r4 - NEMO3.6), and the ECMWF IFS43r1 - NEMO3.6 HighresMIP contribution. All of these models show the well known warm biases over the SO among other places. First we calculated the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient of the SST bias and the magnitude of the wind stress, which turned out to be significant and positive, motivating further digging.
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