Matthew Rodell¹, Augusto Getirana², Bailing Li³, Hiroko K Beaudoing⁴, Benjamin Zaitchik⁵, Sujay V Kumar², Kristi R Arsenault⁴, Himanshu Save⁶, Srinivas V Bettadpur⁶, Brian Wardlow⁷ and Ryan Zamora⁵, (1)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (4)SAIC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States, (6)Center for Space Research, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (7)University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States