Sophie E Cravatte, LEGOS, Université de Toulouse, (IRD, CNES, CNRS, UPS), Toulouse, France, Kentaro Ando, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Meghan F Cronin, NOAA PMEL, Seattle, WA, United States, James B Edson, Univ Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States, J. Thomas Farrar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Tony Lee, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Shayne McGregor, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Stephen G Penny, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Susan Anne Wijffels, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Andrew Thorne Wittenberg, NOAA GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States, Dongxiao Zhang, CICOES/University of Washington and NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA, United States and TPOS2020 Backbone Task Team

James B Edson, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, J. Thomas Farrar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Meghan F Cronin, NOAA PMEL, Seattle, WA, United States, Chris W Fairall, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Karen Grissom, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Data Buoy Center, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States

William S. Kessler, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, Meng Wei, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China, Qingdao, China and Hristina G Hristova, Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Honolulu, HI, United States

Jessica Masich, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, William S. Kessler, NOAA/PMEL/OCRD, Seattle, WA, United States, Meghan F Cronin, NOAA PMEL, Seattle, WA, United States and Karen Grissom, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Data Buoy Center, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States

Dongxiao Zhang¹, Meghan F Cronin², Samantha Wills³, Christian Meinig⁴, Noah Lawrence-Slavas⁴, Richard Jenkins⁵ and Dave Peacock⁶, (1)CICOES/University of Washington and NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)NOAA PMEL, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)CICOES/University of Washington and NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, United States, (4)NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, (5)Saildrone Inc, Alameda, CA, United States, (6)Saildrone Inc, Alameda, United States

Je-Yuan Hsu, National Taiwan University, Institute of Oceanography, Taipei, Taiwan

Elizabeth Jennifer Thompson¹, Jim Moum², Chris W Fairall³, Kyla Drushka⁴, Steven A Rutledge⁵, Suneil Iyer⁶, Andrey Shcherbina⁷, Luc Rainville⁶, Nan-hsun Chi⁶, Andy T Jessup⁸, Eric A D'Asaro⁹, Carol Anne Clayson¹⁰, James B Edson¹¹, Janice L Bytheway¹², Haonan Chen¹³ and Jie Yang¹⁴, (1)NOAA PSL, Physical Sciences Lab, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Oregon State University, College of Earth Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Corvalis, OR, United States, (3)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Washington, Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (6)Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (7)Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Kenmore, WA, United States, (8)Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (9)Applied Physics Lab, Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (10)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (11)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (12)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (13)Colorado State University and NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (14)Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Acoustics, Seattle, WA, United States

Eric C Hackert, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Santha Akella, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Robin M Kovach, NASA, GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Kazumi Nakada, SSAI/GMAO NASA Goddard, Greenbelt, United States, Anna Borovikov, Sugar Land, TX, United States, Andrea Molod, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Kyla Drushka, University of Washington, Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States and Maria Marta Jacob, CoNAE, Cordoba, Argentina

Shota Katsura, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Janet Sprintall, Univ California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States and Frederick Bingham, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, United States

Helen M Snaith, British Oceanographic Data Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom, David Webb, Retired, Washington, DC, United States; National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom and Andrew Coward, National Oceanography Center, Soton, Marine Systems Modelling, Southampton, United Kingdom