Movie 5. Snapshots from the animation with an interval of two months. Movie 5: Thickness of the model upper layer in the Gulf of Alaska after the 1988-89 El Viejo tropical event. Animation period: September 1988 (beginning) - September 1989 (end). No. of frames: 64. Interval: 6 days 2 hours. Size: 895 KB. Due to the fact that the onset of the 1988-89 tropical event is three months earlier (in 1988) than the onset of the 1982-83 event (in 1982) by SSH definition (Meyers and O'Brien, 1995), this animation starts in September, not in December. The color coding of the upper layer thickness (in meters) is shown to the left. Please note that some software for displaying MPEG animations will not display each frame by default. We strongly recommend that you set your MPEG viewer to "Play All Frames" or a similar option.