Kyu-Myong Kim, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, William K-M Lau, University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, Si-Chee Tsay, NASA, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Teppei J Yasunari, Hokkaido University, Arctic Research Center, Sapporo, Japan and Sarith P P Mahanama, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States