Raffaele Montuoro^1,2, Sue Chen³, Larry Marx⁴, Steve Goldhaber⁵, Neil P Barton⁶, Timothy J Campbell⁷, Cecelia DeLuca^1,2, Bin Li^8,9, David McCarren¹⁰, Jessica Meixner¹¹, Mariana Vertenstein¹², Niki Zadeh¹³, Johnna Infanti¹⁴, Bonnie R. Brown¹⁵, Rocky Dunlap¹² and Gerhard Theurich^16,17, (1)CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA, United States, (4)Center for Ocean-Atmospheric-Land Studies Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, (5)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Naval Research Lab, Monterey, CA, United States, (7)Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (8)IMSG, College Park, MD, United States, (9)National Centers For Environmental Prediction-Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD, United States, (10)Oceanographer of the Navy, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (11)NOAA National Center for Environmental Prediction, College Park, MD, United States, (12)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (13)NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States, (14)Climate Prediction Center College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (15)NOAA Ocean and Atmospheric Research, Office of Weather and Air Quality, College Park, MD, United States, (16)SAIC, Reston, VA, United States, (17)Naval Research Lab Monterey, Monterey, CA, United States