William K-M Lau, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, Kyu-Myong Kim, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Chun Zhao, PNNL / Climate Physics, Richland, WA, United States and L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States