Moninya Roughan^1,2, Amandine Schaeffer², Matthew R Archer³, Paulna Cetina Heredia², Steefan Contractor², Shane R Keating⁴, Colette Gabrielle Kerry⁵, Michael Hemming⁴, Neil Malan² and Adil Siripatana², (1)New Zealand Meteorological Service (MetService), MetOcean Division, Auckland, New Zealand, (2)University of New South Wales, Coastal and Regional Oceanography Lab, School of Maths and Statistics, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (4)University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (5)University of New South Wales, Coastal and Regional Oceanography Lab, School of Maths and Statistics, NSW, Australia