One
annual cycle of upper ocean
variability
is illustrated by
imaging
the temperature field
and
superimposing the vertical
coordinate
interfaces and the
mixed
layer base (thick line).
The
annual cycle at point EBC
represents
variability in the
eastern
boundary current off
northwest
Africa. In a narrow
zone
off NW Africa, the
relatively
warm nearsurface layer
is
much thinner in the MICOM
mode
simulation than in the
two
hybrid coordinate simulations.
The
annual cycle of mixed layer
temperature
is much larger in the
MICOM
mode simulation,