Kyle Hilburn, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Jan Mandel, University of Colorado Denver, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Denver, CO, United States, Adam Kochanski, San Jose State University, Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center, San Jose, United States, Assad Oberai, University of Southern California, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Los Angeles, United States, Louis Nguyen, NASA Langley Research Center, Climate Science Branch, Hampton, United States, Andrew Michaelis, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, Derek Vincent Mallia, University of Utah, Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and William L Smith Sr., University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, United States