I'm not up to date on the latest literature re: the Otis miss. Is the conventional thought that the ocean was in fact warmer than the models supposed, either a

I'm not up to date on the latest literature re: the Otis miss. Is the conventional thought that the ocean was in fact warmer than the models supposed, either at the surface or with a warmer upper-mixed layer? If the problem was lack of constraint from data, this is still fixable in a probabilistic sense: we'd "just" (noting it's not that simple) need to assume more variability in ocean conditions in data-poor regions.