Steven L Morey¹, Eric Chassignet², Dmitry S Dukhovskoy³, Courtney Kay Harris⁴, Victoria Coles⁵, Michael R Stukel³, Robert D Hetland⁶, Kristen M Thyng⁶, Tian-Jian Hsu⁷, Andrew James Manning⁸, Olivia Mason⁹, Veronica Ruiz Xomchuk¹⁰, Daijiro Kobashi⁶, Lixin Qu¹¹, Leiping Ye¹², Linlin Cui⁴, Xu Chen¹³ and Jiaze Wang⁵, (1)Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, School of the Environment, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (2)Florida State University, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (3)Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (4)Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States, (5)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD, United States, (6)Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States, (7)University of Delaware, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Newark, DE, United States, (8)HR Wallingford Ltd, Coasts & Oceans Group, Wallingford, United Kingdom, (9)Florida State University, United States, (10)Texas A&M University, Oceanography, College Station, TX, United States, (11)Texas A&M University College Station, Oceanography, College Station, TX, United States, (12)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (13)Florida State University, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Tallahassee, United States