*Jessica Knezha^1,2, Sergey Frolov², Sherrie Frederick^1,2, Jeff Whitaker², Jack Woollen^3,4, Adam Schneider^1,2, Amal El Akkaroui⁵, Dan Holdaway⁵, Seth Cohen⁵ (1. Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder, 2. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Physical Sciences Laboratory, 3. Lynker, 4. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Environmental Modeling Center, 5. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Global Modeling and Assimilation Office)

*Toshihiko Hirooka¹, Taichi Kitagawa¹, Yoshio Kawatani² (1. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kyushu University, 2. Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University)

*Allison Collow^1,2, Arlindo da Silva¹, Peter Colarco³, Virginie Buchard^1,2, Patricia Castellanos¹, Ravi Govindaraju^1,4, Amal El Akkraoui¹, Rob Lucchesi^1,4 (1. NASA GMAO, 2. University of Maryland Baltimore County, 3. NASA GSFC, 4. SSAI)

*Michael G Bosilovich¹, J. Brent Roberts², Franklin R Robertson², Michael Mayer³, Seiji Kato⁴ (1. NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, 2. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, 3. European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasting, 4. NASA Langley Reseach Center)

*Junshi Ito¹, Yusaku Shimamura¹, Urufu Yonei¹, Yasutaka Hirockawa², Shin Fukui^2,1 (1. Tohoku university, 2. Meteorological Research Institute)

*Carlos M Cuervo-Lopez¹, John T Allen¹, Mateusz Taszarek² (1. Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Central Michigan University, 2. Department of Meteorology and Climatology, Adam Mickiewicz University)

*Adam M. Schneider^1,2, Philip Pegion², Sergey Frolov², Jessica Knezha^1,2, Chesley McColl^1,2, Laura Slivinski², Jeffrey S. Whitaker², Sherrie Fredrick^1,2, Larry Spencer^1,2, Gilbert P. Compo^1,2 (1. Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, 2. U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Physical Sciences Laboratory, Modeling and Data Assimilation Division)

Jingpeng Zhang^1,2, *Tianbao Zhao^3,1 (1. College of Oceanography, Hohai University, 2. College of Natural Resources and Environment, Northwest A&F University, 3. Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

*Akira Yamazaki¹, Miki Hattori¹, Shiori Sugimoto¹, Qoosaku Moteki¹ (1. Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology)

*Celia Pérez Souto¹, Juan Antonio Añel ¹, Aleš Kuchař², Laura de la Torre¹ (1. EPhysLab, CIM-UVigo, Universidade de Vigo Ourense, Spain, 2. Institute for Meteorology and Climatology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria )

*Jieying Deng^1,2, Yawen Duan¹, Zhuguo Ma^1,2, Zhen Li¹ (1. Key Laboratory of Regional Climate-Environment for Temperate East Asia, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

*Li Zhang^1,2, Wesley Ebisuzaki¹, Arun Kumar¹, Jeffrey S. Whitaker⁵, Jack Woollen^3,4 (1. CPC/NCEP/NWS/NOAA, 2. ERT, Inc, 3. EMC/NCEP/NWS/NOAA, 4. Lynker, 5. NOAA Physical Sciences Lab )

*KANDULA V SUBRAHMANYAM¹, Karanam Kishore Kumar², Rabindrakumar Nayak¹ (1. Earth and Climate Sciences Area, National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Hyderabad India-500037, 2. Space Physics Laboratory (SPL), Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), ISRO, Trivandrum, India-695022)

*Donaldi Permana¹, Nurdeka Hidayanto¹, I DGA Putra¹, Danang E Nuryanto¹, Ummu Marufah¹, Nurul T Rahmadani¹ (1. Indonesia Agency for Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG))

*Kazuyo Murazaki¹, Toshiyuki Nakaegawa¹ (1. Meteorological Research Institute)

*Romain Bourdalle-Badie¹, Jean-Michel Lellouche¹, Eric Greiner², Gilles Garric¹, Marie Drévillon¹, Angélique Melet¹, Laurent Parent¹, Charly Regnier¹ (1. Mercator Ocean International, 2. Collecte Localisation Satellite)