Kristen M Thyng¹, Veronica Ruiz Xomchuk², Daijiro Kobashi³, Lixin Qu⁴, Robert D Hetland³, Dmitry S Dukhovskoy⁵, Steven Morey⁶, Xu Chen⁷ and Eric Chassignet⁸, (1)Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, (2)Texas A&M University, Oceanography, College Station, TX, United States, (3)Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States, (4)Texas A&M University College Station, Oceanography, College Station, TX, United States, (5)Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (6)Florida A&M University, School of the Environment, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (7)Florida State University, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Tallahassee, United States, (8)Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Tallahassee, FL, United States