Evaluation of the thermohaline field produced by empirical and numerical models in the Loop Current region using projections onto stream function space

Paula Perez Brunius1, Paula García-Carrillo2, Kathleen A Donohue3, Jose Roberto Miranda4, Olmo Zavala-Romero4, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan5, Bruce D Cornuelle5, Amy S Bower6 and Heather H Furey6, (1)UNITED STATES, (2)Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada, Physical Oceanography, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico, (3)Univ Rhode Island, Narragansett, United States, (4)Florida State University, Scientific Computing, Tallahassee, United States, (5)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (6)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States