Minnett & Kaiser - Weiss GHRSST 12 - Jan - 2012 has a graph of ocean skin temperature variation. (skepticalscience.com)
If anyone can overcome that conundrum to increase the temperature of both ocean bulk and ocean skin simultaneously from incoming DLR photons then I'd like to hear the explanation. (scienceofdoom.com)
These data represent ocean skin temperature (Section 3.2.2.3), not air temperature or SST, and so must be adjusted to match the latter. (ipcc.ch)