Adrian H Callaghan¹, Grant B Deane², Dale Stokes², Jean Raymond Bidlot³, Gerrit deLeeuw⁴, Colin D O'Dowd⁵, Alvise Benetazzo⁶, Filippo Bergamasco⁷, Mara Pistellato⁷, Francesco Barbariol⁶, Joe Peach¹ and Andrew Smith⁸, (1)Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering, London, United Kingdom, (2)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, United States, (3)ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom, (4)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands, (5)University of Galway, School of Natural Sciences, Galway, Ireland, (6)CNR-ISMAR, Venice, Italy, (7)Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy, (8)University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography, WEST Greenwich, RI, UNITED STATES