Scott A Braun¹, Arlindo daSilva², Richard Anthony Ferrare³, Meloe S Kacenelenbogen⁴, Walter Arthur Petersen⁵, Graeme L Stephens⁶, Duane Edward Waliser⁷, David M Winker³, Gerald G Mace⁸ and Jens Redemann⁹, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 612, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (5)NASA MSFC, Science Research and Projects Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (8)Univ Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (9)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States