Ashley Elizabeth Payne, University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Christine A Shields, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Jonathan J Rutz, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Travis Allen O'Brien, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, F Martin Ralph, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, La Jolla, CA, United States and Michael F Wehner, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States