Brad Weir^1,2, Jana Kolassa^3,4, Alex Webb^5,6, Emily Bell^3,7, Hannah Zafar³, Thomas Colligan⁸, Colin A Quinn⁹, Dr. Shawn Serbin, BA, MS, PhD¹⁰, Benjamin Poulter¹¹, Lei Ma¹², George C Hurtt¹³, Alexey N Shiklomanov⁷, Kevin Bowman¹⁴ and Lesley Ott⁷, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Morgan State University, Baltimore, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (6)University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States, (8)NASA GSFC/UMD ESSIC, Biospheric Sciences, College PARK, United States, (9)NASA GSFC/UMD ESSIC, Biospheric Sciences, College Park, United States, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (11)Spark Climate Solutions, San Francisco, United States, (12)University of Maryland, College Park, Geographical sciences, College Park, United States, (13)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (14)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States