Supplementary material to be available online for Price (2009) Ocean Science, Metrics of hurricane-ocean interaction: Vertically-integrated or vertically-averaged ocean temperature? 1) Td.zip a collection of Argo data files and a Matlab script used to evaluate Td. 2) Tdand3dpwp.pdf a short description of the comparison between 3D-PWP numerical model results and the Td model. 3) GofM-SST-2005.zip a collection of SST images of the Gulf of Mexico during the historic 2005 hurricane season. Jim Price August, 2009 jprice@whoi.edu