*Andre Lenouo¹, Torsten Weber², Peter Hoffmann², Gaby S. Langendijk³ (1. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Douala – Cameroon, 2. Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, 20095 Hamburg, Germany, 3. Climate Adaptation and Disaster Risk Department, Deltares, PO Box 177, 2600, MH, Delft, the Netherlands)

*Srinivasa Ramanujam Kannan¹ (1. School of Mechanical Sciences, IIT Bhubaneswar)

*Juan Feng¹ (1. Center for Monsoon System Research, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)

*Muhammad Aslam Mohd Safari^1,2, Tosiyuki Nakaegawa² (1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, 2. Department of Applied Meteorological Research, Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba 305-0052, Japan)

*Kazuto Takemura¹ (1. Japan Meteorological Agency)

*Ying Tian¹ (1. Shandong meteorological observatory)

*Satoru Okajima¹, Kazutoshi Onogi¹ (1. Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo)

*Eswyn Chen¹, Amanda Maycock¹, Malcolm Roberts², Juliane Schwendike¹ (1. ICAS, University of Leeds, 2. UK Met Office Hadley Centre)

*Qun Yu¹ (1. Shandong Meteorological Observatory)

*Wenxiu Zhong¹, Yuting Wu¹, Song Yang¹, Tianjiao Ma², Qingyu Cai², Qian Liu¹ (1. Sun Yat-sen University, 2. Chinese Academy of Sciences)