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Acknowledgements
The model integrations were carried out on a VPP300 machine donated by Fujitsu Limited. The ocean model was provided by the Max-Planck-Institut fur Meteorologie, Hamburg; ocean data assimilation software by the Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Melbourne; and coupling software by CERFACS, Toulouse.
