Fig. 1: Decadal variability in global mean sea surface temperature. | Nature Communications

Fig. 1: Decadal variability in global mean sea surface temperature.

From: A joint role for forced and internally-driven variability in the decadal modulation of global warming

Fig. 1

a Global mean sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly (GMSST) time series computed from 8-year low-passed SST for CANESM2 (magenta), CESM1 (green), CSIRO (blue), MPI (red), GFDL (cyan), and observations (OBS; black). b Decadal-scale fluctuations in GMSST as highlighted by the GMSST residual (GMSSTr) obtained removing the quadratic fit from the time series shown in a (see Supplementary Fig. S1 for details on the quadratic fit). c Same as b but using 1-year low-passed SST. GMSST is defined as area-weighted mean SST between 40°S and 60°N and anomalies are relative to the 1980–2010 mean. Colour shading indicates the one standard deviation model spread envelope and units are in (°C).

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