Dr. Vivek Seelanki, PhD, CICOES, University of Washington/NOAA PMEL, Seattle, United States, Wei Cheng, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, United States, Phyllis J Stabeno, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, Albert J Hermann, University of Washington, Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, and Ecosystem Studies (CICOES), Seattle, United States, Elizabeth Drenkard, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, United States, Charles A Stock, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States and Katherine Hedstrom, Arctic Rgn Supercomputing Ctr, Fairbanks, United States