Extra-tropical origin of equatorial Pacific cold bias in climate models

Natalie Burls1, Les Muir2, Emmanuel M Vincent3 and Alexey V Fedorov2, (1)George Mason University, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Earth Sciences, Fairfax, VA, United States, (2)Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States