About the Authors

Dionysios E. Raitsos

Contributed equally to this work with: Dionysios E. Raitsos, Yaswant Pradhan

dra@pml.ac.uk

Affiliations Earth Science and Engineering (ErSE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Remote Sensing Group (RSG), Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom

Yaswant Pradhan

Contributed equally to this work with: Dionysios E. Raitsos, Yaswant Pradhan

Affiliation Met Office, FitzRoy Road, Exeter, United Kingdom

Robert J. W. Brewin

Affiliation Remote Sensing Group (RSG), Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom

Georgiy Stenchikov

Affiliation Earth Science and Engineering (ErSE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Ibrahim Hoteit

Affiliation Earth Science and Engineering (ErSE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DER IH GS. Performed the experiments: DER YP. Analyzed the data: DER YP RB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DER YP RB. Wrote the paper: DER.