Sensitivity of the tropical Atlantic circulation to specification of wind stress climatology

This study examines the sensitivity of a simulation of the tropical Atlantic circulation to the choice of climatological wind stress forcing. Three climatological wind stress data sets, representing different classes of data products, are used to drive a high-resolution general circulation model of the Atlantic Ocean. The analysis of the model sensitivity to these different wind stress climatologies focuses on the mean seasonal cycle and low order statistics of the simulated upper ocean circulation in the tropics and its comparison with observations. -from Authors