Christopher Cusack¹, Emilie Breviere², Mr. Patrick Gorringe², Naoki Hirose³, Julie Jakoboski⁴, Shinichiro Kida⁵, Dr. Michela Martinelli, PhD⁶, George Maynard⁷, Hassan Moustahfid⁸, Moninya Roughan⁹, João de Souza¹⁰, Dr. A Miguel Piecho Santos, PhD, DSc¹¹ and Aubrey Taylor¹², (1)Environmental Defense Fund DC, Washington, United States, (2)Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden, (3)Kyushu University, Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Fukuoka, Japan, (4)MetService, Wellington, New Zealand, (5)Research Institute of Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, (6)CNR Institute for Marine Science, Institute for Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnology (IRBIM), Ancona, Italy, (7)NOAA, North East Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, United States, (8)NOAA/NOS/US Integrated Ocean Observing System, Silver Spring, United States, (9)University of New South Wales, Coastal and Regional Oceanography Lab, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (10)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, (11)IPMA-Portuguese Institute for the Sea and the Atmosphere/CCMAR-Center of Marine Sciences Univ. Algarve, Lisboa, Portugal, (12)Environmental Defense Fund, New York, United States