Faycal Kessouri¹, Daniele Bianchi², James C McWilliams², Lionel Renault², Karen McLaughlin¹, Pierre Damien², Curtis A. Deutsch³, Hartmut Frenzel³, Minna Ho¹ and Martha Sutula¹, (1)Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, Costa Mesa, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States