Iury Tercio Simoes-Sousa, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA, United States, Ilson C Da Silveira, Instituto Oceanografico - University of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Amit Tandon, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Mechanical Engineering, Dartmouth, MA, United States, Renato Parkinson Martins, Research and Development Center (CENPES), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Glenn Flierl, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States