Longlei Li¹, Natalie M Mahowald¹, Yves Balkanski², David S Connelly¹, Paul A Ginoux³, Maria Gonçalves⁴, Douglas Hamilton⁵, Olga V. Kalashnikova⁶, Martina Klose⁷, Ron L Miller⁸, Vincenzo Obiso⁴, David Paynter³ and Carlos Pérez García-Pando⁴, (1)Cornell University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, (2)LSCE, CEA CNRS UVSQ, 91191, Gif sur Yvette, France, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (3)NOAA GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain, (5)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, (8)NASA/GISS, New York, NY, United States