Brian Kenneth Blaylock, National Research Council Research Associateship Program, Washington, DC, United States, Daniel P Tyndall, Naval Research Lab Monterey, Marine Meteorology, Monterey, CA, United States and Philip Anthony Muscarella, SRI International, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Timothy J Hoar¹, Kevin Raeder², Jeffrey L Anderson², Jeff Steward³, Moha El Gharamti¹, Benjamin K Johnson¹, Glen S Romine⁴, Soyoung Ha² and Arthur P Mizzi⁵, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Data Assimilation Research Section, Boulder, United States, (4)NCAR/MMM, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NCAR/MMM/FL2, Boulder, CO, United States

Zhifeng Yang¹, Milton Halem², Jennifer Sleeman² and Phuong Nguyen³, (1)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Physics, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Computer Science, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)University Of Maryland Baltimore County, Halethorpe, MD, United States

Yun Liu^1,2, Ping Chang^2,3, Shaoqing Zhang^2,4, Lixin Wu^4,5, Jaison Kurian^2,6, Dan Fu^5,7 and Chuan-Yuan Hsu⁶, (1)Texas A&M University, Colllege Station, TX, United States, (2)International Laboratory for High-Resolution Earth System Prediction (iHESP), College Station, TX, United States, (3)Texas A & M Univ, College Station, TX, United States, (4)Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China, (5)International Laboratory for High-Resolution Earth System Prediction (iHESP), College Station, United States, (6)Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, (7)Texas A&M University, Oceanography, College Station, United States

Congmeng Lyu, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Shannon Capps, Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Matthew Lombardo, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, Mark Shephard, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, Canada, Amir Hakami, Carleton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Daven K Henze, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Steven P. Thomas, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia and Peter J Rayner, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

Xiaoxing Wang¹, Kei Yoshimura² and Kinya Toride², (1)The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, Kashiwa, Japan, (2)The University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, Kashiwa, Japan

Zikang He, Xidong Wang and Zhiqiang Chen, Hohai University, Nanjing, China

Robert C Wilson, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Thomas S Pagano, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Longtao Wu, Jet Propulsion Lab-MLS, Pasadena, CA, United States, Hui Su, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Trinh Vo, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States

Graham Moss¹, Jennifer Fowler², Carl Spangrude² and Hannah Woody¹, (1)University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States, (2)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States

Isaac Moradi, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO), Greenbelt, MD, United States, Will McCarty, NASA/GMAO, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Nikki Prive, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Ronald M. Errico, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States