Reul Nicolas, IFREMER, Plouzané, France, Bertrand Chapron, IFREMER, Univ. Brest, CNRS, IRD, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale, Brest, France, Semyon Grodsky, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, Sebastien Guimbard, OceanScope, France, Vladimir Kudryavtsev, Russian State Hydrometeorological University, Russia, Gregory R Foltz, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL, United States and Karthik Balaguru, PNNL, Marine Sciences Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States