Morteza Derakhti, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Jim Thomson, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Mika Malila, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States and James T Kirby Jr, University of Delaware, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Newark, DE, United States

Mika Malila, University of Bergen, Geophysical Institute, Bergen, ARRAY(0xc4c6244), Norway; University of Washington Seattle Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States, Jim Thomson, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Oyvind Breivik, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Bergen, Norway

Autumn Poisson¹, Ali Abdolali², Andre Jaco Van der Westhuysen³, Zaizhong Ma⁴, Saeed Moghimi⁵ and Avichal Mehra⁴, (1)North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States, (2)EMC/NOAA/NWS, College Park, United States, (3)NOAA/NWS, College Park, MD, United States, (4)National Centers For Environmental Prediction-Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD, United States, (5)NOAA National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States

Jessica Meixner¹, Brandon G Reichl², Shrinivas Moorthi¹, Jiande Wang³, Lydia B Stefanova³, Denise Worthen⁴, Bin Li³, Jun Wang¹, Alistair Adcroft⁵, Robert Hallberg⁶, Stephen Griffies⁷ and Avichal Mehra⁸, (1)NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)IMSG at NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States, (4)IMSG/National Centers For Environmental Prediction-Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD, United States, (5)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (6)NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (7)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (8)National Centers For Environmental Prediction-Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD, United States

Tomas Chor, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, James C McWilliams, University of California in Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Marcelo Chamecki, UCLA, Los Angeles, United States

Rui Sun¹, Aneesh Subramanian², Bruce D Cornuelle¹, Matthew R Mazloff¹, Arthur J Miller¹, Sabique Langodan³ and Ibrahim Hoteit³, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Breanna Vanderplow, Nova Southeastern University, Dania Beach, FL, United States, Alexander Soloviev, Nova Southeastern Univ, Dania Beach, FL, United States, Brian K Haus, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, Roger Lukas, Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States and William Perrie, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada

Yuanyuan Gu, Gabriel George Katul and Nicolas Cassar, Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, NC, United States