Dana E Veron, University of Delaware, Center for Research in Wind, Dept. of Geography and Spatial Sciences, Newark, DE, United States, Christophe Genthon, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Paris, France, Massimo del Guasta, INO-CNR, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy, Philippe Ricaud, Météo-France, Toulouse Cedex 01, France, Paolo Grigioni, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Rome, Italy, Eric Bazile, Météo-France, CNRM/GMAP/PROC, Toulouse, France and Hubert Gallée, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France