September 10 SST Imagery

What a wonderful picture of the bottom layer in GOFS 3.1.

That bottom layer was always an unmet challenge in 3.0.

Perhaps both models are being pulled to a warmer SST by the assimilation of the satellite data.

Last good image of the area I have is Sept 7, a couple days before this plot.

SSTs maybe near 25C, but a little hard to read the color scale.

MARACOOS OceansMap 7-day composite SST also looks to be near that 24C mark.

All good things to investigate with the data assimilators at Stennis.

Scott

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