Auxiliary Material for Paper 2011JC007652 A conceptual model of an Arctic sea Pierre St-Laurent Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virgina, USA Fiamma Straneo Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA David G. Barber Centre for Earth Observation Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada St-Laurent, P., F. Straneo, and D. G. Barber (2012), A conceptual model of an Arctic sea, J. Geophys. Res., 117, C06010, doi:10.1029/2011JC007652. Introduction Auxiliary material for this article contains a single figure showing the interannual variability of the model variables and forcings. The interannual variability will be examined in a separate manuscript and it is shown only for methodological purposes. 1. 2011jc007652-fs01.eps Figure S1. Interannual variability of the model variables and forcings (see section 3 for definition of the symbols). The interannual variability will be examined in a separate manuscript and it is shown only for methodological purposes.