James Tremper Randerson¹, Jefferson Keith Moore¹, Weiwei Fu¹, Keith T Lindsay², Natalie M Mahowald³, Abigail L. S. Swann⁴, Charles Koven⁵, William J Riley⁵, David M Lawrence² and Forrest M. Hoffman⁶, (1)University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Cornell University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, (4)University of Washington, Atmospheric Sciences and Biology, Seattle, WA, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Earth Sciences Group and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States