Nikolaos Papagiannopoulos¹, Dionysios E Raitsos², Georgios Krokos³, John Anthony Gittings Sr⁴, Vassilis P Papadopoulos⁵, Alexandra Pavlidou⁶, Nick Selmes⁷, Robert J W Brewin⁷ and Ibrahim Hoteit⁸, (1)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Marine Science & Engineering, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, (2)Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), Plymouth, United Kingdom, (3)Earth Sciences and Engineering Department, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, (4)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, (5)Hellenic Centre for Marine Res, Anavissos, Greece, (6)Hellenic Center for Marine Research, Anavyssos, Greece, (7)Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (8)Earth Sciences and Engineering Program, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia