“…When considered individually, the eight ESMs show some disparities in this spatial pattern, but generally better reproduce the observed pattern than the nine discarded models (lower root mean square error RMSE, Figures S2 and S3). This subset of eight ESMs includes ACCESS-ESM1.5 (Ziehn et al, 2019a(Ziehn et al, , 2019b, CESM2 (Danabasoglu, 2019a(Danabasoglu, , 2019b, CESM2-WACCM (Danabasoglu, 2019c(Danabasoglu, , 2019d, CNRM-ESM2-1 (Seferian, 2018;Voldoire, 2019), GFDL-CM4 (Guo et al, 2018a(Guo et al, , 2018b, GFDL-ESM4 (John et al, 2018;Krasting et al, 2018), IPSL-CM6A-LR (Boucher et al, 2018(Boucher et al, , 2019, and NorESM2-MM (Bentsen, Oliviè, Sealand, et al, 2019; (Table S1). The results are presented for the equatorial Pacific Ocean (15°S-15°N, 140°E to South American coastline, black box in Figure 2a).…”