Zhiqiang Chen¹, Xidong Wang¹ and Lei Liu², (1)Hohai University, Nanjing, China, (2)SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Hengkai Yao¹, Chao Ma¹, Jaison Kurian² and Ping Chang², (1)Ocean University of China, Physical Oceanography Laboratory/CIMST, Qingdao, China, (2)Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States

Alisa Yakhontova¹, Roelof Rietbroek², Sophie Stolzenberger³ and Nadja Jonas³, (1)Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, (2)University of Bonn, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, Bonn, Germany, (3)University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Genevieve Jay Brett, University of Hawaii at Manoa, International Pacific Research Center, Honolulu, HI, United States, Daniel B Whitt, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Matthew C Long, National Center for Atm Res, Boulder, CO, United States and Kelvin John Richards, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, International Pacific Research Center, Honolulu, HI, United States

Zhankun Wang, Mississippi State University, Northern Gulf Institute, Mississippi State, MS, United States, Hernan Eduardo Garcia, NOAA/NODC, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Tim Boyer, NOAA/National Oceanographic Data Center, Washington, DC, United States, James R Reagan, ESSIC - University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States and Just Cebrian, Mississippi State University, Northern Gulf Institute, Stennis Space Center, United States

Christian Sustayta^1,2, Alberto M Mestas-Nunez^1,2 and Karen Mendiondo^1,2, (1)University of Texas at San Antonio, Department of Geological Sciences, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)NASA Center for Advanced Measurements in Extreme Environments (CAMEE), University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States

Miguel Solano and Maarten C Buijsman, University of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States

Swantje Bastin, Martin Claus, Peter Brandt and Richard John Greatbatch, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Hiroyuki Tsujino¹, Shogo Urakawa², Stephen Griffies³, Gokhan Danabasoglu⁴, Alistair Adcroft⁵, Arthur E Amaral⁶, Arsouze Thomas⁶, Mats Bentsen⁷, Raffaele Bernardello⁸, Claus W Boning⁹, Alexandra Bozec¹⁰, Eric P. Chassignet¹⁰, Sergey Danilov¹¹, Raphael Dussin³, Eleftheria Exarchou⁶, Pier Giuseppe Fogli¹², Baylor Fox-Kemper¹³, Chuncheng Guo⁷, Mehmet Ilicak^7,14, Doroteaciro Iovino¹⁵, Who M Kim⁴, Nikolay Koldunov¹⁶, Yoshiki Komuro¹⁷, Vladimir Lapin⁶, Yiwen Li¹⁸, Pengfei Lin¹⁹, Keith T Lindsay²⁰, Hailong Liu¹⁹, Matthew C Long²¹, Simon James Marsland²², Simona Masina²³, Aleksi Nummelin⁷, Jan Klaus Rieck⁹, Yohan Ruprich-Robert⁶, Markus Scheinert²⁴, Valentina Sicardi⁸, Dmitry Sidorenko²⁵, Tatsuo Suzuki²⁶, Hiroaki Tatebe²⁷, Qiang Wang¹¹, Stephen G Yeager²⁸ and Zipeng Yu²⁹, (1)Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Ibaraki, Japan, (2)Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Japan, (3)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (6)Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain, (7)NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway, (8)Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Earth Sciences, Barcelona, Spain, (9)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (10)Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (11)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (12)Fondazione CMCC, Bologna, Italy, (13)Brown University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (14)Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey, (15)Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation, Bologna, Italy, (16)MARUM‐Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Bremen, Germany, Bremen, Germany, (17)JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, (18)State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG), Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (19)State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG), Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China, Beijing, China, (20)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (21)National Center for Atm Res, Boulder, CO, United States, (22)CSIRO Ocean and Atmospheric Research Aspendale, Aspendale, VIC, Australia, (23)Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Ocean Modelling and Data Assimilation, Bologna, Italy, (24)GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany, (25)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, (26)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan, (27)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Research Center for Environmental Modeling and Application, Yokohama, Japan, (28)NCAR, Oceanography, Boulder, CO, United States, (29)LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Irina Rypina¹, Michael Dotzel², Lawrence J Pratt³, Christina Hernandez⁴ and Joel Llopiz⁴, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, PO, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (4)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States

Shuwen Tan¹, Lawrence J Pratt², Gunnar Voet³, Matthew H Alford⁴, Jesse Cusack³, James B Girton⁵, Glenn S Carter⁶, Karl Richard Helfrich² and Kelly Pearson⁷, (1)Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, (2)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (4)Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (5)Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (6)University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (7)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States

Mikhail Schee and Nicolas Grisouard, University of Toronto, Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada

Oladeji Siyanbola¹, Maarten C Buijsman¹, Roy Barkan² and Brian K Arbic³, (1)University of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (2)Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, (3)University of Michigan, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Korak Saha, Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies , University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States and Huai-Min Zhang, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC, United States

Vicki Lynn Ferrini¹, John J Morton¹, Lindsay Gee², Erin Heffron^1,2, Hayley Caitlin Drennon¹, Nicole Raineault² and Suzanne M Carbotte¹, (1)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Ocean Exploration Trust, Narragansett, RI, United States

Olivier Marchal, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States

Jihwan Kim and Hanna Na, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)

Robert van der Drift, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States and Michael J McPhaden, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA, United States

Keshav Raja, Universiy of Southern Mississippi, School of Ocean Science and Engineering, John C. Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, Oladeji Siyanbola, University of Southern Mississippi, School of Ocean Science and Engineering, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, Miguel Solano, University of Southern Mississippi, School of Ocean Science and Engineering, Stennis Space center, United States, Maarten C Buijsman, University of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, Jay F Shriver, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States and Brian K Arbic, University of Michigan, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Jingxuan Wei, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, Robert Reece, Texas A&M University, Geology and Geophysics, College Station, TX, United States, Will Fortin, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Kathryn Gunn, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, United States and Tanner Michael Michael Acquisto, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, NY, United States

Alexis Kaminski, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Eric A D'Asaro, Applied Physics Lab, Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Andrey Y. Shcherbina, Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States and Ramsey Reed Harcourt, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle Heights, WA, United States