Yalin Fan, US Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, United States, Elizabeth Douglass, US Naval Research Laboratory, Ocean Sciences Division, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, William Erick Rogers, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, Todd Thoman, National Research Council, Stennis Space Center, United States and Alan J Wallcraft, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States