Lei Zhang¹, Weiqing Han², Kristopher B Karnauskas³, Gerald A Meehl⁴, Aixue Hu⁴, Nan A Rosenbloom⁵ and Toshiaki Shinoda⁶, (1)University of Colorado Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (4)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NCAR/CGD, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX, United States