Enric Pallas Sanz¹, Miguel Costa Tenreiro², Gabriela Eugenia Athié de Velasco³, Steven Francis DiMarco⁴, Scott M Glenn⁵, Anthony Hayden Knap⁴, Travis N Miles⁵, Robert Currier⁶, Mathieu Gentil⁷, Jorge Brenner⁸, Paula Perez-Brunius⁹, Sheila Natali Estrada-Allis² and Gabriela Eugenia Athié de Velasco, (1)Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, San Diego, CA, United States, (2)Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada, Physical Oceanography, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico, (3)Universidad Veracruzana, Instituto de Ciencias Marinas y Pesquerías, Veracruz, Mexico, (4)Texas A&M University, Geochemical and Environmental Research Group (GERG), College Station TX, United States, (5)Rutgers University, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, United States, (6)Gulf of America Coastal Ocean Observing System, College Station, United States, (7)Aix-Marseille Université, Université de Toulon, CNRS, IRD, MIO, UM 110, Marseille, France, (8)Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System, Houston, United States, (9)CICESE, Physical Oceanography, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico