Joao Teixeira¹, Julio T Bacmeister², Leo Donner³, Rong Fu⁴, Georgios Matheou⁵, Mikael Witte⁶, Marcin Kurowski⁷, Kay Suselj¹, Mark Smalley^7,8, Yi-Hsuan Chen⁹, Zhihong Tan¹⁰, Maria Joao Chinita^7,11, Rachel L Storer¹, Matthew D Lebsock¹² and Adam Ross Herrington¹³, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)AMP/CGD, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)University of Connecticut, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Groton, CT, United States, (6)UCLA, WestWood, United States, (7)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (8)UCLA JIFRESSE, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (9)Princeton University, Program of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, United States, (10)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (11)University of California Los Angeles, JIFRESSE, Los Angeles, United States, (12)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (13)Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States

David Andrew New, Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Nathan Arnold, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Wonbae Bang¹, Jacob Carlin², Alexander Ryzhkov³, Kwonil Kim⁴ and Gyuwon Lee⁴, (1)Kyungpook National University, Center for Atmospheric REmote sensing (CARE), Daegu, South Korea, (2)Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Norman, OK, United States, (3)Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, (4)Kyungpook National University, Department of Astronomy and Atmospheric Sciences, Daegu, South Korea

Daniel Smith¹, Ian Renfrew², Steve Dorling², Jeremy Price³ and Ian Boutle⁴, (1)University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences, Norwich, NR4, United Kingdom, (2)University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences, Norwich, United Kingdom, (3)Met Office, Boundary Layer Observational Research, Cardington, United Kingdom, (4)Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom

Anubhav Choudhary, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany and Aiko Voigt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany

Ligia Bernardet¹, Weiwei Li², Michelle Harrold², Xia Sun³, Judy Henderson¹, Lulin Xue², Daniel Frank D'Amico², Jimy Dudhia² and Michael B Ek², (1)NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)CU-CIRES at NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, United States

Daniel Frank D'Amico¹, Weiwei Li¹, Lulin Xue¹, Ligia Bernardet², Grant Firl³, Judy Henderson², Jimy Dudhia¹, Michael B Ek¹, Michelle Harrold¹ and Xia Sun⁴, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Developmental Testbed Center, Global Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States

Stan Benjamin, NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Joseph Olson, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Shan Sun, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Georg A Grell, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Tatiana G Smirnova, NOAA/ESRL/GSD - CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States and Hannah Barnes, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States

Weizhong Zheng¹, Jongil Han², John S Kain³, Geoffrey Manikin³, Ruiyu Sun¹, Fanglin Yang³, Vijay Tallapragada³, Jian-Wen Bao³ and Michael Barlage³, (1)IMSG at NOAA/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States, (2)SRG at NOAA/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States, (3)NOAA/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States

Linlin Pan¹, Evelyn Grell², Evan Kalina¹, Kathryn Newman³, Ligia Bernardet⁴, Dom Heinzeller¹, Jeff Beck⁵, Gerard Ketefian¹ and Georg Grell⁶, (1)NOAA Global System Laboratory, University of Colorado/CIRES, Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA/Physics Science Laboratory, University of Colorado/CIRES, Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research/RAL, Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NOAA Global System Laboratory, Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NOAA Global System Laboratory, Colorado State University/CIRA, Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, United States, (6)NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States

Haowen Yue, University of California, Los Angeles, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Mekonnen Gebremichael, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Shixuan Zhang¹, Kai Zhang², Hui Wan¹, Jeffrey L Anderson³, Kevin Raeder³ and Jian Sun¹, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA, United States, (3)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States

ZhanShan Ma, BNU Beijing Normal University, Numerical Weather Predication Center of China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China, Chuanfeng Zhao, Beijing Normal University, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing, China and Jiandong Gong, National Meteorological Center of China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China