Antje Inness¹, Melanie Ades¹, Dmitry Efremenko², Johannes Flemming¹, Pascal Hedelt³, Vincent Huijnen⁴, Zak Kipling¹, Diego G Loyola², Samuel Remy⁵ and Roberto Ribas¹, (1)European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom, (2)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (3)Institut für Methodik der Fernerkundung, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Oberpfaffenhofen, Weßling, Germany, (4)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands, (5)HYGEOS research consultancy, Lille, France

Johannes Flemming¹, Richard Ménard², Yang Zhang³, Martin Cope⁴, Christopher Gan⁵, Luisa T Molina⁶, Hong Wang⁷, K. Emma Knowland⁸, Virginie Marecal⁹, James H Crawford¹⁰, Zablon Weku Shilenje¹¹, Stephan Nordmann¹², Guy P Brasseur¹³, Jessica Seddon¹⁴, Carmichael Gregory¹⁵, Oksana A Tarasova¹⁶, Lu Ren¹⁶ and Alexander Baklanov¹⁷, (1)European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom, (2)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Air Quality Research Division, Montreal, QC, Canada, (3)Northeastern University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, United States, (4)CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, Australia, (5)Meteorological Service Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, (6)Molina Center for Energy & Env, La Jolla, CA, United States, (7)Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China, (8)Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, MD, United States, (9)Meteo France, Toulouse, France, (10)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (11)Kenya Meteorological Department, Nairobi, Kenya, (12)UBA German Federal Environment Agency, Berlin, Germany, (13)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (14)World Resources Institute, Washington DC, United States, (15)University of Iowa, Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, Iowa City, IA, United States, (16)World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, (17)WMO, Genova, Switzerland

Wenhao Wang¹, Xiong Liu² and Yang Liu¹, (1)Emory University, Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States

Partha S Bhattacharjee, I.M. Systems Group at NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States, Li Pan, NOAA NWS NCEP/EMC and IMSG, College Park, MD, United States, Barry Baker, NOAA ARL, College Park, United States, Li Zhang, NOAA ESRL/GSL and CU Boulder/CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, Raffaele Montuoro, NOAA, ESRL/GSL and CU Boulder/CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, Georg A Grell, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Stuart A McKeen, NOAA ESRL/CSL and CU Boulder/CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States and Jeffrey McQueen, NOAA College Park, National Weather Service, College Park, MD, United States

Jorge Eduardo Guerra, NOAA/NSSL/OU-CIMMS, Boulder, CO, United States and Alice Crawford, NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, MD, United States

Binyu Wang¹, Barbara Stunder², Jeffrey McQueen³, Alice Crawford⁴, Allison Ring^4,5, Binbin Zhou⁶, Edward Strobach⁷, Michael Pavolonis Sr.⁸, Jian-Ping Huang⁹, Ho-Chun Huang¹⁰ and Li Pan¹¹, (1)IMSG at NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Noaa, College Park, United States, (3)NOAA College Park, National Weather Service, College Park, MD, United States, (4)NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, MD, United States, (5)Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies, Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, College Park, United States, (6)NOAA, Springfield, United States, (7)Environmental Modeling Center, Washington, DC, United States, (8)NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, United States, (9)IMSG, College Park, MD, United States, (10)UMD/ESSIC at NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD, United States, (11)NOAA NWS NCEP/EMC and IMSG, College Park, MD, United States

Xinxin Ye¹, Pablo E Saide¹, Arlindo daSilva², Shobha Kondragunta³, Alexei Lyapustin², Yujie Wang⁴, Jeffrey McQueen⁵, Jian-Ping Huang⁶, Richard J Engelen⁷, Vincent-Henri Peuch⁸, Mark Parrington⁸, R. Bradley Pierce⁹, Ravan Ahmadov¹⁰, Georg A Grell¹¹, Didier Davignon¹², Paul Makar¹³, Jack Chen¹⁴, Louisa K Emmons¹⁵, Rajesh Kumar¹⁵, Farren Leto Herron-Thorpe¹⁶, Gregory R Carmichael¹⁷, Gonzalo Andres Ferrada¹⁸, Johnathan W Hair¹⁹, Marta A Fenn^19,20 and Taylor Shingler²¹, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (4)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (5)NOAA College Park, National Weather Service, College Park, MD, United States, (6)NOAA, Center for Weather and Climate Prediction, National Weather Service, College Park, MD, United States, (7)ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom, (8)European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom, (9)University of Wisconsin Madison, Space Science and Engineering Center, Madison, WI, United States, (10)NOAA ESRL/CSL, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)Canadian meteorological Centre Operations, MSC-CCMEP, Dorval, QC, Canada, (13)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Air Quality Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada, (14)Environment Canada Dorval, Air Quality Research Division, Dorval, QC, Canada, (15)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (16)Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States, (17)Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (18)University of Iowa, Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, Iowa City, IA, United States, (19)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (20)SSAI, Hampton, VA, United States, (21)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States

Amy K Huff¹, Shobha Kondragunta², Hai Zhang¹, Istvan Laszlo³ and Mi Zhou⁴, (1)IMSG at NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NOAA NESDIS STAR, College Park, MD, United States, (3)NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD, United States, (4)IMSG, College Park, MD, United States

Manish Soni, Birla Institute of Technology Jaipur, Jaipur, India, Sunita Verma, Banaras Hindu University, Institute of Environmental and Sustainable Development, Varanasi, 221, India and Swagata Payra, Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Jaipur Campus, Department of Physics, Jaipur, India

Samuel Rémy¹, Graham W Mann², Vincent Huijnen³, Simon Henri Chabrillat⁴, Johannes Flemming⁵, Zak Kipling⁵, Antje Inness⁶ and Richard J Engelen⁶, (1)HYGEOS, Lille, France, (2)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (3)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands, (4)Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium, (5)European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom, (6)ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom