Donata Canu¹, Ginevra Rosati¹, Michael Denes², Erik van Sebille², Svitlana Liubartseva³, Johannes Bieser⁴, Zhiyong Xie⁴, Ioannis Tamvakis⁵, George Triantafyllou⁶, Lee de Mora⁷, Giovannni Galli⁸, Olivier Beauchard⁹ and Karline Soetaert⁹, (1)National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Trieste, Italy, (2)Utrecht University, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, (3)Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Bologna, Italy, (4)Helmholtz-Zentrum HEREON, Hamburg, Germany, (5)MINDS, Athens, Greece, (6)MINDS, Athen, Greece, (7)Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (8)National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS), Trieste, Italy, (9)Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems, Yerseke, Netherlands