Hendrik L. Tolman (DOC/NOAA/NWS/OSTI, USA) (Following coauthors in alphabatic order) Mickael Accensi (Ifremer, France) Jose-Henrique Alves (SRG at NOAA/NCEP/EMC, USA) Fabrice Ardhuin (CNRS, France, previously at SHOM then Ifremer) Francesco Barbariol (ISMAR-CNR, Italy) Alvise Benetazzo (ISMAR-CNR, Italy) Anne-Claire Bennis (University of Caen, France, previously at SHOM, France) Jean Bidlot (ECMWF, UK) Nico Booij (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, retired) Guillaume Boutin (Ifremer, France) Tim Campbell (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Dmitry V. Chalikov (Formerly UCAR at NOAA/NCEP/EMC) Arun Chawla (NOAA/NCEP/EMC, USA) Sukun Cheng (while at Clarkson University, USA) Clarence Collins (while an NRL/ASEE post-doc, USA) Jean-Francois Filipot (France Energy Marine, forerly SHOM then Ifremer, France) Mike Foreman (IOS, Canada) Peter Janssen (ECMWF, United Kingdom) Fabien Leckler (Ifremer, France) Jian-Guo Li (UK MetOffice, United Kingdom) Kevin Lind (DoD PETTT, USA) Jessica Meixner (IMSG at NOAA/NCEP/EMC, USA) Mark Orzech (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Roberto Padilla-Hernandez (IMSG at NOAA/NCEP/EMC, USA) William Perrie (Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada) Arshad Rawat (MIO, Mauritius and Ifremer, France) W. Erick Rogers (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Aron Roland (T. U. Darmstadt, Germany) Caroline Sevigny (UQAR, Canada) Hayley Shen (Clarkson Univ.) Mathieu Dutour Sikiric (IRB, Croatia) Mark Szyszka (RPS Group, Australia) Bash Toulany (Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada) Barbara Tracy (US Army Corps of Engineers, ERDC-CHL, USA, retired) Gerbrant Ph. van Vledder (Delft University of Technology, NL) Andre van der Westhuysen (IMSG at NOAA/NCEP/EMC, USA) Xin Zhao (while at Clarkson University, USA) Stefan Zieger (Bureau of Meteorology, Australia)