*Donifan Barahona¹, Ci Song³, Daniel McCoy³, Katherine Breen^2,1, Andrea Molod¹ (1. Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA, Greenbelt, MD, USA , 2. Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, USA, 3. University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA)

*Gilbert P. Compo¹, Prashant D. Sardeshmukh¹, Philip Pegion², Jeffrey S. Whitaker², Adam M. Schneider¹, Sergey Frolov², Jessica Knezha¹, Chesley McColl¹, Laura Slivinski², Sherrie Frederick¹, Larry Spencer¹ (1. CIRES, University of Colorado at Boulder & Physical Sciences Laboratory, NOAA, 2. Physical Sciences Laboratory, NOAA)

*James T Potemra¹, Robert A Weller², Roger Lukas¹, Albert Plueddemann², Sebastian Bigorre², Elizabeth Thompson³ (1. University of Hawaii, 2. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 3. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration)

*Susanna Winkelbauer¹, Michael Mayer^1,2, Leopold Haimberger¹ (1. Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna, 2. European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Bonn, Germany)