Andrew W Wood¹, Christa D Peters-Lidard², Bart Nijssen³, Grey Stephen Nearing^4,5, Martyn P Clark⁶, Ethan D Gutmann¹, Sujay V Kumar⁴, Julie A Vano⁷, Naoki Mizukami¹, Andrew Bennett⁸, Joseph Hamman⁹, Kristine L Verdin¹⁰, James V Geiger¹¹, Scott Rheingrover⁴ and Zhuo Wang¹², (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of Alabama, Geological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, (6)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States, (9)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, CO, United States, (11)Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (12)Earth Resources Technology, Greenbelt, MD, United States