Scientific Reports 6: Article number: 28842; published online: 29 June 2016; updated: 01 August 2016

In the HTML version of this Article, there is a typographical error in the Introduction section,

“We call this the “effective wind stress”:

where is the stress associated with the pressure gradient-induced geostrophic shear, referred to hereinafter as the geostrophic shear stress.”

should read:

“We call this the “effective wind stress”:

where is the stress associated with the pressure gradient-induced geostrophic shear, referred to hereinafter as the geostrophic shear stress.”