Takamitsu Ito, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, Matthew C Long, National Center for Atm Res, Boulder, CO, United States, Curtis A. Deutsch, University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States, Shoshiro Minobe, Hokkaido Univ-Grad. School Sci, Natural History Sciences, Sapporo, Japan and Daoxun Sun, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States