Julien Boucharel, LEGOS-IRD, Toulouse, France, Rafael Almar, Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales (LEGOS), IRD, Toulouse, France, Fei-Fei Jin, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Honolulu, HI, United States, Sen Zhao, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Honolulu, United States, Malte F Stuecker, International Pacific Research Center and Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States and Boris Dewitte, Center for Ecology and Sustainable Management of Oceanic Islands (ESMOI), Facultad de Ciencias del Mar, Departamento de Biología Marina, Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile, Coquimbo, Chile