Xianglei Huang, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Xiuhong Chen, University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, Norman G Loeb, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, Seiji Kato, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, Suhui Zhao, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Chongxing Fan, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, David Paynter, NOAA/ Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, Wuyin Lin, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States and Hailong Wang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States