Susan Kizer^1,2, Marilee Roell³, David E Flittner¹, Robert Damadeo¹, Larry Willis Thomason¹, Travis N Knepp¹, Caroline M Roller⁴, Kevin Leavor⁵, Dale F Hurst⁶, Emrys Hall⁷, Allen F Jordan⁶, Patrick Cullis⁶, Bryan J Johnson⁸ and Richard Querel⁹, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications Inc., Hampton, VA, United States, (3)Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (5)SSAI, Hampton, VA, United States, (6)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Global Monitoring Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)NOAA Boulder, ESRL/GMD, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)NIWA National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Lauder, New Zealand