Sonali Shukla McDermid¹, Benjamin Cook², Martin Gerard De Kauwe³, Justin S Mankin⁴, Jason E Smerdon⁵, Park Williams⁶, Richard Seager⁷, Michael Joseph Puma⁸, Igor D Aleinov⁹, Maxwell Kelley¹⁰ and Larissa Nazarenko¹⁰, (1)New York University, New York, NY, United States, (2)NASA-GISS, New York, NY, United States, (3)Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, (4)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (5)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (6)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (7)Lamont Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States, (8)Columbia University in the City of New York, Center for Climate Systems Research, Palisades, NY, United States, (9)Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, (10)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States