Emanuela Clementi¹, Stefania Ciliberti², Jenny Pistoia¹, Eric Jansen², Damiano Delrosso^3,4, Romain Escudier¹, Massimiliano Drudi², Alessandro Grandi², Rita Lecci², Sergio Cretí², Francesco Palermo², Vladimir Lyubartsev², Laura Stefanizzi², Leonardo Lima¹, Anna Chiara Goglio¹, Elisaveta Peneva⁵, Mehmet Ilicak⁶, Simona Masina^1,4, Nadia Pinardi^1,3 and Giovanni Coppini², (1)Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Ocean Modelling and Data Assimilation, Bologna, Italy, (2)Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Ocean Predictions and Applications, Italy, (3)University of Bologna, Physics and Astronomy, Bologna, Italy, (4)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Bologna, Italy, (5)Sofia University, Meteorology and Geophysics, Sofia, Bulgaria, (6)Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey