Are predictability timescales for Atlantic upper ocean heat content in models consistent with observations?

Martha W Buckley1, Timothy M DelSole1, Laurie L Trenary2 and Laure Zanna3, (1)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, (2)Center for Land-Ocean-Atmospheric Studies Fairfax, Atmospheric,Oceanic, and Earth Science, Fairfax, VA, United States, (3)University of Oxford, Dept. of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom