Jian-Ping Huang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States, Jeffrey McQueen, NOAA College Park, National Weather Service, College Park, MD, United States, Benjamin Yang, Penn State University, State College, PA, United States, Perry Shafran, IMSG / NOAA, NCEP, College Park, MD, United States, Li Pan, NOAA NWS NCEP/EMC and IMSG, College Park, MD, United States, Ho-Chun Huang, UMD/ESSIC at NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD, United States, Partha Bhattacharjee, IMSG AND EMC/NCEP/NOAA, Washington, DC, United States, Youhua Tang, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Suitland, MD, United States, Patrick Campbell, NOAA Ocean and Atmospheric Research, College Park, MD, United States, Daniel Tong, NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, MD, United States, Pius Lee, NOAA, Air Resources Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Ivanka Stajner, NOAA, National Weather Service, Boulder, CO, United States, John S Kain, National Weather Center, College Park, MD, United States, Jose tirado-Delgado, NOAA/NWS/STI, Silver Spring, United States and Dorothy M Koch, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD, United States