*kevin kenfack¹, Alain Tamoffo², Lucie Djiotang Tchotchou¹, Derbetini Vondou¹ (1. 1Laboratory for Environmental Modelling and Atmospheric Physics (LEMAP), Physics Department, University of Yaoundé 1, Yaoundé, Cameroon, 2. Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Fischertwiete 1, 20095 Hamburg, Germany)

*Sourabh Bal^1,2, Ingo Kirchner² (1. Swami Vivekananda Institute of Science & Technology, 2. Institute for Meteorology, Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany)

*Syed Ahsan Ali Bokhari¹, Sohail Babar Cheema¹ (1. Pakistan Meteorological Department)

*Xiaocong Wang¹ (1. Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS))

Eloisa Raluy-Lopez¹, *Juan Pedro Montavez¹, Victoria Gallardo¹, Pedro Jimenez-Guerrero¹ (1. Regional Atmospheric Modelling Group, University of Murcia)

*Takatoshi Sakazaki¹, Michael Schindelegger² (1. Kyoto University, 2. University of Bonn)

*Weihua Yuan¹, Xuelin Hu¹ (1. LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

*Martin Wegmann^1,2, Stefan Brönnimann^1,2 (1. Institute of Geography, University of Bern, 2. Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern)

*Patrick Martineau¹, Masatomo Fujiwara² (1. Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan, 2. Faculty of Environmental Earth Science Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan)

*Ed Hawkins¹, Philip Brohan², Gil Compo^4,3, Laura Slivinski^4,3, Ivan Haigh⁵, Samantha Burgess⁶, Suzanne Gray⁷ (1. National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading, 2. Met Office, Exeter, 3. NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, USA, 4. Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, USA, 5. School of Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, 6. Copernicus Climate Change Service, ECMWF, Reading, UK, 7. Department of Meteorology, University of Reading)

*Muthuvel Chelliah¹ (1. Climate Prediction Center, NCEP/NWS/NOAA/U.S.Dept.of Commerce.)

*Ting Liu¹ (1. State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources)

*Hans Hersbach¹, David Lavers¹, Mark Rodwell¹, Adrian Simmons¹ (1. ECMWF)

*Shion SEKIZAWA¹, Yayoi HARADA¹ (1. Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency)

*Libo Zhou¹ (1. Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

*Nir Krakauer^1,2 (1. Department of Civil Engineering, City College of New York, City University of New York, 2. Earth and Environmental Sciences, Graduate Center, City University of New York)

*Masatomo Fujiwara¹, Fabio Madonna^2,3, Ruud Dirksen⁴, Peter Thorne⁵, Working Group on GRUAN⁶ (1. Hokkaido University, 2. Università di Salerno, 3. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Istituto di Metodologie per l’Analisi Ambientale (CNR-IMAA), 4. Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) , 5. Maynooth University, 6. GCOS)

*Masatomo Fujiwara¹, Gloria Manney^2,3, Jonathon S. Wright ⁴, Mohamadou A. Diallo⁵, Felix Ploeger ⁵, Emma Knowland^6,7, Krzysztof Wargan^6,8, Sean Davis⁹, Patrick Martineau¹⁰, S/A-RIP Team¹¹ (1. Hokkaido University, 2. NorthWest Research Associates, 3. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 4. Tsinghua University, 5. Forschungszentrum Jülich, 6. National Aeronautics and Space Administration , 7. Morgan State University, 8. Science Systems and Applications, Inc., 9. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 10. Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology , 11. WCRP/APARC)

*Mohana S Thota¹, Niranjan Kumar Kondapalli¹, Raghavendra Ashrit¹, Indira Rani S¹, Sumit kumar B¹, John George P¹, Saji Mohandas¹, Prasad S V¹ (1. NCMRWF, Ministry of Earth Sciences)

*Hiroaki Naoe¹, Shinya Kobayashi², Yuki Kosaka², Chiaki Kobayashi¹, Makoto Deushi¹, Kiyotaka Shibata³ (1. Meteorological Research Institute / Japan Meteorological Agency, 2. Numerical Prediction Development Center / Japan Meteorological Agency, 3. Kochi University of Technology)

*SHIVAJI SINGH PATEL^1,2, Ashish Routray¹, Rajeev Bhatla², Nitin Lohan³, V S Prasad¹ (1. National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF,INDIA), 2. Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UP, INDIA, 3. India Meteorological Department, New Delhi, INDIA)

*Chunxiang Li¹, Tianbao Zhao¹, Chunxiang Shi², Zhiquan Liu³ (1. Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2. National Meteorological Information Center, China Meteorological Administration, 3. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Earth System Laboratory)

*Misnawati Misnawati¹, Yudi Riadi Fanggidae¹, Mega Perdanawanti², Unggul Handoko¹ (1. Research Center for Climate and Atmosphere, National Research and Innovation Agency, Indonesia, 2. Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency, Indonesia)

*Yvan Joseph ORSOLINI¹, Retish SENAN², Boqi Liu³, Patricia de Rosnay², Martin Wegmann⁴, Wei Li⁵, Jie Chen⁵, Lu Li⁶ (1. NILU The Climate and Environmental Research Institute, Norway, 2. ECMWF, Reading (UK), 3. Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CAMS), China, 4. University of Bern (CH), 5. State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan University, China, 6. NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway)

*Paige A. Hovenga¹, Matthew Newman¹, Taylor G. Asher², Gregory Dusek³, William Sweet³, Brian Blanton⁴, Jeffrey L. Tilson⁴, Richard A. Luettich, Jr.², Matthew J. Widlansky⁵, Linta Rose⁵ (1. Physical Sciences Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2. Coastal Resilience Center, University of North Carolina, 3. National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 4. Renaissance Computing Institute, University of North Carolina, 5. Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawai’i Mānoa)

*Hiroaki Naoe¹, Makoto Deushi¹ (1. Meteorological Research Institute / Japan Meteorological Agency)