Saeed Moghimi^1,2, Edward Payson Myers III³, Sergey V Vinogradov¹, Beheen Trimble⁴, Yinglong J Zhang⁵, Fei Ye⁵, Jaime Calzada⁶, Andre Jaco Van der Westhuysen⁷, Yuji Funakoshi^1,8, Roham Bakhtyar⁹, Kazungu Maitaria¹⁰, P. Velissariou¹¹, Ali Abdolali¹², Daniel Rosen¹³ and Carsten Lemmen¹⁴, (1)NOAA National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (2)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, DC, United States, (3)NOAA, NOS/OCS, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (4)NOAA-NWC, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, (5)Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States, (6)NOAA National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, United States, (7)NOAA/NWS, MD, United States, (8)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, MD, United States, (9)NOAA / Office of Water Prediction / National Water Center, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, (10)National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Water Center (NWC), Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, (11)NOAA-NWC, Tuscaloosa, United States, (12)NOAA/NWS, College Park, United States, (13)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (14)Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Geesthacht, Germany