Acknowledgments
This study was funded by UNAM-DGAPA PAPIIT Projects TA100420 and IA101122 and CONACYT Project 320563. Funding for the development of HyCOM has been provided by the National Ocean Partnership Program and the Office of Naval Research. Data assimilative products using HyCOM are funded by the US Navy. We also thank the Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction group of the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate Change of UNAM for the particle transport model provided, particularly Dr. J. Zavala-Hidalgo, as well as G.U. Martín-Ruiz and A. Ramírez-Manguilar for IT support. Computer time was made available by the DoD High-Performance Computing Modernization Program. RD would like to thank Julio Lara-Hernández for the trajectory data used in Text S2. This work was conducted under the Advanced Offshore Research Portfolio, FWP Number 1022409 at National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy.