Maria Tzortziou¹, Brice Grunert², Craig E. Tweedie³, Alana Menendez⁴, Stephen Michael Escarzaga³, Joaquim I Goes⁵, Peter J Hernes⁶, Robert G Spencer⁷ and Antonio Mannino⁸, (1)CUNY City College, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, New York, NY, United States, (2)City College of New York, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, New York, United States, (3)University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States, (4)CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, (5)Lamont Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States, (6)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (7)Florida State University, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Ocean Ecology Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States