Daily sea surface temperature (shading) and drifter trajectories (previous ten days) for the winters of 2002-2003 and 2003-2004, in the CLIMODE study region. Microwave SST is from the merged TMI and AMSR-E product by Remote Sensing Systems (www.remss.com). (www.remss.com) Trajectories are from the quality-controlled, interpolated data set of satellite-tracked 15m-drogued buoys (www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dac/dac.html)