Alison Cobb¹, Luca Delle Monache¹ and F Martin Ralph², (1)Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States

Minghua Zheng, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Luca Delle Monache, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, Xingren Wu, EMC/NCEP/NWS/NOAA, Crofton, MD, United States, F Martin Ralph, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, La Jolla, CA, United States, Bruce D Cornuelle, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, Vijay Tallapragada, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States, Jennifer S Haase, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States, Anna Maria Wilson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, CA, United States, Matthew R Mazloff, SIO, La Jolla, CA, United States, Aneesh Subramanian, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Forest Cannon, Scripps Institution of Oceanography - Center for Western Weather & Water Extremes, La Jolla, CA, United States

Anna Maria Wilson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, CA, United States, Aneesh Subramanian, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Bruce Ingleby, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom, David Lavers, European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom, Luca Raffaele Centurioni, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Carolyn A. Reynolds, US Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States, James D Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA, United States, Rebecca Stone, Science Applications International Corp., Monterey, CA, United States, Brian Kawzenuk, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, La Jolla, CA, United States, Luca Delle Monache, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, Vijay Tallapragada, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States and F Martin Ralph, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, La Jolla, CA, United States

Emma Renee Robertson, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Julianna Cativo, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Jennifer S Haase, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States, Bing Cao, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Michael J Murphy, UCSD, La Jolla, United States, Anna Maria Wilson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, CA, United States, Nikolai Chernyy, Loon, LLC, Mountain View, United States and James Antifaev, Loon, Mountain View, CA, United States

Travis Allen O'Brien, Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States, Yang Zhou, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Christine A Shields, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Ashley Elizabeth Payne, University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Jonathan J Rutz, NOAA Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and William Drew Collins, Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States

Yang Zhou¹, Travis Allen O'Brien^1,2, Paul Aaron Ullrich^1,3, William Drew Collins^1,4, Christina M Patricola^1,5 and Alan Rhoades¹, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States, (3)University of California Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States, (4)University of California, Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Iowa State University, Geological & Atmospheric Sciences, Ames, IA, United States

Mengxin Pan and Mengqian Lu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Sol Kim, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Karthik Kashinath, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Bin Guan, University of California, Los Angeles, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Arvind Nayak, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States and John Chiang, UC Berkeley, Geography, Berkeley, CA, United States

Carolyn A. Reynolds¹, William Crawford², Neil P Barton³, Matthew Janiga², Justin McLay⁴, Maria K. Flatau⁴ and Andrew Huang⁵, (1)Naval Research Lab Monterey, Marine Meteorology, Monterey, CA, United States, (2)US Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States, (3)Naval Research Lab, Monterey, CA, United States, (4)Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA, United States, (5)Science Applications International Corporation, Monterey, United States

Chen Zhang, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, Wen-wen Tung, Purdue Univ, West Lafayette, IN, United States and William S. Cleveland, Purdue University, Statistics and Computer Science, West Lafayette, IN, United States

Tseng Kai-Chih¹, Nathaniel Johnson², Sarah B. Kapnick², Thomas L Delworth³, Feiyu Lu⁴, William Cooke⁵, Anthony John Rosati⁵, Liping Zhang², Colleen McHugh^2,6, Xiaosong Yang^2,7, Matt Harrison⁵, Fanrong Jenny Zeng⁸, Hiroyuki Murakami², Andrew Thorne Wittenberg⁹, Mitchell Bushuk² and Liwei Jia^2,7, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)University of Wisconsin Madison, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States, (5)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (6)Science Applications International Corporation, Reston, VA, United States, (7)UCAR, Princeton, NJ, United States, (8)NOAA Princeton, Princeton, NJ, United States, (9)NOAA GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States

Huanping Huang¹, Christina M Patricola^1,2, Travis Allen O'Brien^1,3, Emily Bercos-Hickey¹, Yang Zhou¹, William Drew Collins^1,4, Alan Rhoades¹ and Mark Daniel Risser¹, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Iowa State University, Geological & Atmospheric Sciences, Ames, IA, United States, (3)Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States

Hamish Daniel Prince¹, Peter Gibson², Mike DeFlorio², Thomas Corringham³, Alison Cobb⁴ and Bin Guan⁵, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (4)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, La Jolla, CA, United States, (5)University of California, Los Angeles, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Thomas Corringham, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Tamara Shulgina, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, Alexander Gershunov, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, CA, United States, Daniel R Cayan, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States and F Martin Ralph, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, La Jolla, CA, United States

Jose Martinez-Claros, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Physics, Socorro, NM, United States, David Raymond, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, United States and Zeljka Fuchs, Beaconsfield, WA, Australia

Amin K Dezfuli, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Douluri Dhana Laskhmi and Arun Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences, Kharagpur, India

Deanna Nash and Leila V Carvalho, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Erica R Siirila-Woodburn¹, Alan Rhoades¹, P. James Dennedy-Frank¹, Pouya Vahmani¹, Fadji Zaouna Maina¹, Yang Zhou¹ and Andrew D Jones², (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States

Irene Crisologo, Northwestern University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Evanston, IL, United States, Scott M Collis, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States and Daniel E Horton, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States