George John Huffman¹, David T Bolvin², Dan Braithwaite³, Kuolin Hsu⁴, Robert Joyce⁵, Christopher Kidd⁶, Eric Nelkin², Soroosh Sorooshian⁷, Jackson Tan⁸ and Pingping Xie⁹, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)University of California Irvine, Irvine, United States, (5)NOAA/NCEP/CPC, Boca Raton, FL, United States, (6)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College PARK, MD, United States, (7)Univ California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (8)Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, (9)NOAA/NCEP, College Park, MD, United States