Forrest M. Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Philip Kershaw, NCEO / Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom, Sasha Ames, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, Rachana Ananthakrishnan, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, Laura Carriere, NCCS, NASA Goddard, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Stephan Kindermann, DKRZ German Climate Computing Centre, Data Management, Hamburg, Germany, Christian Page, CERFACS, Climate Modeling and Global Change, Toulouse, France, Aparna Radhakrishnan, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States and Andrew Robinson, Australian National University National Computational Infrastructure, Canberra, Australia