Winter (February 15) current velocity vertically averaged within the mixed layer. The observed flow field was produced by initializing the model with Levitus climatology, shutting off thermo- dynamical forcing, and running the model for two weeks. Substantial transients remain in the equatorial region. The simulated fields are qualitatively similar to each other and to the observations. The surface flow in the western subtropical gyre tends to be more surface intensified in the two HYCOM KPP simulations than in other cases.