Steven L Morey¹, Eric Chassignet², Steven Francis DiMarco³, Mr. Sakib Mahmud, PhD³, Amy S Bower⁴, Scott M Glenn⁵, Travis N Miles⁵, Miguel Costa Tenreiro⁶, Enric Pallas Sanz⁶, Lynn K Shay⁷, Pierre F J Lermusiaux⁸, Rafael Ramos⁹ and Michael Feldman¹⁰, (1)Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, NOAA Center for Coastal and Marine Ecosystems, and Professor, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (2)Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (3)Texas A&M University, Geochemical and Environmental Research Group (GERG), College Station TX, United States, (4)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (5)Rutgers University, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, United States, (6)Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada, Physical Oceanography, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico, (7)RSMAES/University of Miami, Department of Ocean Sciences, Miami, United States, (8)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (9)Woods Hole Group, Houston, United States, (10)National Academy of Sciences, Washington, United States