Louise P Chini¹, George C Hurtt¹, Cecile S Rousseaux², Blake Clark³, Tesfa Worku Worku Meshesha⁴, Stephanie Schollaert Uz⁵, Lei Ma⁶, Stephen Crooks⁷, Pierre Friedlingstein⁸ and Janna Chapman⁹, (1)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center & USRA, Greenbelt, United States, (4)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Sciences Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)University of Maryland, College Park, Geographical sciences, College Park, United States, (7)Silvestrum Climate Associates, LLC, San Francisco, CA, United States, (8)University of Exeter, Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, Exeter, United Kingdom, (9)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States