Nikolay Victor Balashov^1,2, Lesley E Ott¹, Brad Weir³, K. Emma Knowland⁴, Kenneth J Davis⁵, Christoph Andrea Keller⁶ and Abhishek Chatterjee⁷, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Postdoctoral Program, Universities Space Research Association Columbia, NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO), Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States, (5)The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (7)USRA, Greenbelt, MD, United States