Caterina Gianolla, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, CMCC Foundation, Lecce, Italy, Giorgia Verri, CMCC, Ocean application and Prediction Division, Lecce, Italy, Diana Azevedo, Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Ocean Predictions and Applications Division, Lecce, Italy, Dr. Eric Jansen, PhD, CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Bologna, Italy, Dr. Guillaume Charria, IFREMER, Univ. Brest, CNRS, IRD, LOPS, Brest, France and Nadia Pinardi, University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bologna, Italy