Vishnu Nair, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, Thijs Heus, Cleveland State University, Solon, OH, United States and Maarten Reeuwijk, van, Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering, London, United Kingdom

Katelyn A Barber, Casey D. Burleyson, Zhe Feng and Samson M Hagos, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States

John M. Peters, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States, Hugh Morrison, NCAR, MMM Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States and Guang Jun Zhang, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States

Lois Tang, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Kerry Emanuel, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States and Kaighin A Mccoll, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States

Yu Cheng¹, Pak Wah Chan¹, Xin Wei¹, Zeyuan Hu¹, Zhiming Kuang² and Kaighin A. McColl², (1)Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States

Brian E Mapes, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Atmospheric Sciences, Miami, FL, UNITED STATES and Wei-Ming Tsai, RSMAS, ATM, Miami, FL, United States

Allison A Wing¹, Catherine L Stauffer¹, Tobias Becker², Kevin A Reed³, Min-Seop Ahn⁴, Nathan Arnold⁵, Sandrine Bony⁶, Mark Branson⁷, George H Bryan⁸, Jean-Pierre Chaboureau⁹, Stephan R De Roode¹⁰, Kulkarni Santosh Gayatri¹¹, Cathy Hohenegger², I-Kuan Hu¹², Fredrik Jansson¹³, Todd Russell Jones¹⁴, Marat Khairoutdinov¹⁵, Daehyun Kim¹⁶, Shuhei Matsugishi¹⁷, Zane Martin¹⁸, Brian Medeiros¹⁹, Hiroaki Miura²⁰, Yumin Moon²¹, Sebastian Mueller², Tomoki Ohno²², Max Popp²³, Thara Prabhakaran²⁴, David A Randall²⁵, Rosimar Rios-Berrios²⁶, Nicolas Rochetin², Romain Roehrig²⁷, David Romps²⁸, James H Ruppert Jr²⁹, Satoh Masaki³⁰, Levi Glenn Silvers³¹, Martin Singh³², Bjorn B Stevens², Lorenzo Tomassini³³, Chiel van heer Waarden³⁴, Shuguang Wang³⁵ and Ming Zhao³⁶, (1)Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (2)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, (3)Stony Brook University, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (4)University of Washington, Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Paris, France, (7)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (8)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (10)TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands, (11)Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India, (12)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (13)Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (14)University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, (15)Stony Brook University, School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (16)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, (17)University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan, (18)Columbia University of New York, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, New York, NY, United States, (19)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (20)Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (21)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (22)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, (23)Laboratoire de Météorologique Dynamique, Paris, France, (24)Indian Inst. of Tropical Met., Pune, Maharashtra, India, (25)Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (26)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (27)CNRM (Météo-France and CNRS), Toulouse, France, (28)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (29)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (30)Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan, (31)Stony Brook University, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook, United States, (32)Monash University, School of Earth, Atmosphere & Environment, Clayton, VIC, Australia, (33)Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, (34)Wageningen University and Research Center, Department of Meteorology and Air Quality, Wageningen, Netherlands, (35)Columbia University, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, New York, NY, United States, (36)NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States