Francesco Barbariol¹, Jean Biblot², Alvise Benetazzo³, Luigi Caveleri⁴, Silvio Davison³, Alberto Meucci⁵, Mauro Sclavo⁶ and James M Thomson⁷, (1)CNR-ISMAR, Venice, Italy, (2)European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom, (3)CNR-ISMAR, Italy, (4)Italian National Research Council (CNR) - Institute for Marine Science (ISMAR), Venice, Italy, (5)University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia, (6)CNR ISMAR, Venice, Italy, (7)Applied Physics Lab (UW), Seattle, WA, United States