Kai Ma, SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, Manfredi Manizza, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, Yonglin Liu, State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, LTO, Guangzhou, China, Dimitris Menemenlis, NASA JPL/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, Hanqin Tian, Boston College, Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Boston, United States, Kate Q Zhang, JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, Qinghua Yang, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China, Chuanyu Liu, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany and Yang Feng, State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangzhou, China