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V., 2013, J CLIMATE IN PRESS Kessler, William S. Cravatte, Sophie Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-09-BLAN-0233-01]; INSU/LEFE/IDAO project Solwara This paper was possible because of the data collection, compilation, and quality control efforts of several national and international programs. The quality-controlled XBT profiles were produced and made available by the Coriolis Data Centre (http://www.coriolis.eu.org). The Argo profiling float data were collected and made available by the International Argo Program and the national programs that contribute to it (http://www.argo.ucsd.edu). The AVISO altimeter products were produced by Ssalto/Duacs and distributed by AVISO, with support from CNES (http://www.aviso.oceanobs.com/duacs/). Gridded wind products were made available by the Center for Ocean-Atmosphere Prediction studies at Florida State University (http://coaps.fsu.edu/RVSMDC/FSUFluxes/), for ERS by the Centre ERS d'Archivage et de Traitement (http://cersat.ifremer.fr/), and for QuikScat by Remote Sensing Systems (http://www.remss.com). The authors acknowledge K. Ridgway and an anonymous reviewer, whose comments greatly helped to focus our ideas. This work also benefited from discussions with Florent Gasparin, Lionel Gourdeau, Alexandre Ganachaud and, as always, Dennis Moore. This work is cofunded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (Project ANR-09-BLAN-0233-01) and by INSU/LEFE/IDAO project Solwara; it is a contribution to the SPICE International programs (http://www.solomonseaoceanography.org). 1 AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC BOSTON J PHYS OCEANOGR
