Ivanka Stajner¹, Jeffrey McQueen², Jian-Ping Huang^3,4, Ho-Chun Huang^3,5, Li Pan⁶, Partha Bhattacharjee⁷, Dorothy M Koch⁸, Jose tirado-Delgado^9,10, Pius Lee¹¹, Youhua Tang^12,13, Daniel Tong^12,13, Patrick Campbell^13,14, Barry Baker^15,16, James M Wilczak¹⁷, Irina Djalalova^18,19, Georg A Grell²⁰, Li Zhang²¹, Gregory J Frost²², Stuart A McKeen^21,23 and Shobha Kondragunta²⁴, (1)NOAA/National Weather Service, NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NOAA College Park, National Weather Service, College Park, MD, United States, (3)IMSG, College Park, MD, United States, (4)NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States, (5)National Centers for Environmental Prediction - Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD, United States, (6)NOAA NWS NCEP/EMC and IMSG, College Park, MD, United States, (7)IMSG AND EMC/NCEP/NOAA, Washington, DC, United States, (8)NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (9)NOAA/NWS/STI, Silver Spring, United States, (10)Eastern Research Group, Inc. Arlington, Arlington, United States, (11)NOAA, Air Resources Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, MD, United States, (13)Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (14)National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Air Resources Laboratory, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (15)NOAA ARL, College Park, United States, (16)Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites University of Maryland, College Park, DC, United States, (17)NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States, (18)NOAA, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (19)CIRES and NOAA/OAR/ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (20)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (21)NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (22)Chemical Sciences Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (23)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (24)NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States