Viral Shah^1,2, Pam Wales^2,3, Carl Malings⁴, Megan Rose Damon⁵, Brad Weir¹, Sourish Basu⁶, Krzysztof Wargan⁷, Michael Long³, Nikolay Balashov^3,8, Fei Liu^7,9, Retha Mecikalski¹⁰, Thomas Tobin¹⁰, Robert A Luccesi³, Joseph V Ardizzone¹¹, Sandra Jane Roberts¹⁰, Maryam Abdi-Oskouei¹², Jerome Barré¹², K. Emma Knowland¹³, Lesley Ott³ and Steven Pawson³, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Morgan State University, GESTAR II, Baltimore, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States, (4)NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (8)University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, United States, (9)Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR) II, Morgan State University, Baltimore, United States, (10)Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (11)NASA GSFC/SSAI Inc., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (12)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, Boulder, United States, (13)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States