Ivan Federico¹, Ivano Barletta², Giorgia Verri³, Fabio Montagna¹, Salvatore Causio¹, Giovanni Coppini⁴, Emanuele Di Lorenzo⁵ and Nadia Pinardi⁶, (1)CMCC - EuroMediterranean Center on Climate Change, Lecce, Italy, (2)CMCC - EuroMediterranean Center on Climate Change, Italy, (3)CMCC, Ocean application and Prediction Division, Lecce, Italy, (4)Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Ocean Predictions and Applications, Italy, (5)Georgia Inst Tech, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States, (6)University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy