Ian Chang¹, Adeyemi A Adebiyi², Lan Gao³, Dr. Jianyu Zheng, PhD⁴, Peng Xian⁵, Meloe S Kacenelenbogen⁶, Abdulamid Fakoya³, Connor J. Flynn⁷, Patricia Castellanos⁸, David Painemal⁹, William L Smith Jr¹⁰, Sundar A Christopher¹¹, Jens Redemann³, Robert Wood¹², Paquita Zuidema¹³ and Zhibo Zhang¹⁴, (1)University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Earth, Environmental, and Geographical Sciences, Charlotte, NC, United States, (2)University of California – Merced, Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Merced, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, United States, (4)University of Maryland Baltimore County, GESTAR-II, Baltimore, MD, United States, (5)Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)PNNL, Richland, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (Code 610.1), Greenbelt, United States, (9)NASA Langley Research Center, Hamption, United States, (10)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (11)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Atmospheric and Earth Science, Huntsville, AL, United States, (12)University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science, Seattle, United States, (13)University of Miami, Rosenstiel School, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Miami, United States, (14)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Physics, Baltimore, United States