Alexei Korolev¹, Ivan Heckman¹, Mengistu Wolde², Andrew S Ackerman³, Ann M Fridlind³, Luis Ladino⁴, Paul Lawson⁵, Jason Milbrandt⁶ and Earle R Williams⁷, (1)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)National Research Council Canada, Flight Research Laboratory, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (3)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (4)Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centre of Atmospheric Sciences, Mexico City, Mexico, (5)SPEC Inc, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Atmospheric Numerical Weather Prediction Research, Dorval, QC, Canada, (7)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States