Kaoru Tachiiri, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Research Institute for Global Change (RIGC) / Research Center for Environmental Modeling and Application (CEMA) / Earth System Model Development and Application Group (ESM-DAG), Kanagawa, Japan, Ken'ichi Matsumoto, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Xuanming Su, JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan and Diego Silva Herran, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan