*Sean M Davis^1,2, Michaela Hegglin³, Masatomo Fujiwara⁴, Rossana Dragani⁵, Yayoi Harada⁶, Chiaki Kobayashi⁷, Craig Long⁸, Gloria Manney^9,10, Eric Nash¹¹, Susann Tegtmeier¹², Tao Wang¹³, Krzysztof Wargan¹⁴, Jonathon Wright¹⁵ (1.NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, 2.Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado at Boulder, 3.University of Reading, 4.Hokkaido University, 5.European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, 6.Japan Meteorological Agency, 7.Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, 8.NOAA Climate Prediction Center, 9.NorthWest Research Associates, 10.New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 11.Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, 12.GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research , 13.NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, 14.NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, 15.Tsinghua University)

*Sean M Davis^1,2, Michaela Hegglin³, Masatomo Fujiwara⁴, Rossana Dragani⁵, Yayoi Harada⁶, Chiaki Kobayashi⁷, Craig Long⁸, Gloria Manney^9,10, Eric Nash¹¹, Susann Tegtmeier¹², Tao Wang¹³, Krzysztof Wargan¹⁴, Jonathon Wright¹⁵ (1.NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, 2.Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado at Boulder, 3.University of Reading, 4.Hokkaido University, 5.European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, 6.Japan Meteorological Agency, 7.Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, 8.NOAA Climate Prediction Center, 9.NorthWest Research Associates, 10.New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 11.Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, 12.GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research , 13.NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, 14.NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, 15.Tsinghua University)