Brad Weir¹, Alex Webb^2,3, Emily Bell^4,5, Hannah Zafar⁴, Sourish Basu^3,5, Lesley Ott⁵, Vivienne Payne⁶, Abhishek Chatterjee⁷, Christopher O'Dell⁸, Xin Lan⁹, John B Miller⁹, John Mund^9,10, Gabrielle Petron¹¹, Michael Alexander Buchwitz¹² and Stefan Noel¹³, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (7)California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (8)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, (9)NOAA, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (10)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (11)University of Colorado, Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (12)University of Bremen, Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP), Bremen, Germany, (13)University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany