Catherine M Naud, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, James F Booth, CUNY-City College, New York, United States, Katia Lamer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, Roger Marchand, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, Alain Protat, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia, Greg M McFarquhar, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States and Andrew Gettelman, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States