*Mahendar Chand Rajwar¹, Hiroshi Tanimoto¹, Isamu Morino¹, Tamaki Fujinawa¹, Nguyen Doan Thien Chi¹, Satoshi Inomata¹, Takafumi Sugita¹, Astrid Müller¹, Yukio Terao¹ (1. National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan)

*Alexandra Monteiro¹, André Barreirinha¹, Bruno Augusto¹, Carla Gama¹, Daniel Helm¹, Enrico Dammers², Helder Relvas¹, Joana Ferreira¹, Jaqueline Rocha¹, Michael Russo¹, Markus Thuerkow³, Martjin Schaap³, Sabine Banzhaf³ (1. CESAM, Department of Environment and Planing, University of Aveiro, Portugal, 2. TNO, The Netherlands, 3. Free University of Berlin, Germany )

*Suman Maity¹, Yosuke Niwa¹ (1. National Institute for Environmental Studies)

*Shigeyuki Ishidoya¹, Kentaro Ishijima^2,3, Yasunori Tohjima⁴, Daisuke Goto⁵, Kazuhiro Tsuboi^2,3, Satoshi Sugawara⁶, Yosuke Niwa⁴, Hiroyuki Tsujino³, Shinji Morimoto⁷, Yukio Terao⁴, Hideki Nara⁴, Nobuyuki Aoki¹, Motoki Sasakawa⁴, Shin-ichiro Nakaoka⁴ (1. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 2. Japan Meteorological Agency, 3. Meteorological Research Institute, 4. National Institute for Environmental Studies, 5. National Institute of Polar Research, 6. Miyagi University of Education, 7. Tohoku University )

*Yugo Kanaya¹, Phuc Thi Minh Ha¹, Yongjoo Choi², Hisahiro Takashima^3,1, Takashi Sekiya¹, Kengo Sudo⁴, Hanlim Lee⁵, Limseok Chang⁶, Hyunkee Hong⁶, Jhoon Kim⁷ (1. Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 2. Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, 3. Fukuoka University, 4. Nagoya University, 5. Pukyong National University, 6. National Institute of Environmental Research, 7. Yonsei University)

*James H Crawford¹ (1. NASA Langley Research Center)