Brad Weir^1,2, Chris O'Dell³, Kenneth J Davis⁴, Emily Bell⁵, Joel Campbell⁶, Sandip Pal⁷, Sha Feng⁸, Bing Lin⁹ and Lesley E Ott¹, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, United States, (3)Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (4)The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Fort Colins, CO, United States, (6)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (7)Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States, (8)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States, (9)NASA Langley Research Center - LARC, Hampton, VA, United States