Vijay Tallapragada, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States and Avichal Mehra, National Centers For Environmental Prediction-Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD, United States

Jie Chen, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States and Daniel Robert Chavas, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States

Ning Lin, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, Renzhi Jing, Lawrence, KS, United States, Kerry Emanuel, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States, Gabriel Andres Vecchi, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States and Thomas R Knutson, NOAA Princeton, Princeton, NJ, United States

Chuan-Chieh Chang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States and Zhuo Wang, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States

Malcolm J Roberts¹, Joanne Camp², Jon Seddon³, Pier Luigi Vidale⁴, Kevin Hodges⁵, Benoit Vanniere⁶, Jennifer Mecking⁷, Rein Haarsma⁸, Alessio Bellucci⁹, Enrico Scoccimarro¹⁰, Louis-Philippe Caron¹¹, Fabrice Chauvin¹², Laurent Terray¹³, Marie-Pierre Moine¹⁴, Dian Putrasahan¹⁵, Christopher Roberts¹⁶, Retish Senan¹⁷, Colin M. Zarzycki¹⁸, Paul Aaron Ullrich¹⁹, Yohei Yamada²⁰, Ryo Mizuta²¹, Chihiro Kodama²², Dan Fu²³, Qiuying Zhang²⁴, Gokhan Danabasoglu²⁵, Nan A Rosenbloom²⁶, Hong Wang²⁷ and Lixin Wu²⁷, (1)Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom, (2)UK Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, (3)Met Office Hadley center for Climate Change, Exeter, United Kingdom, (4)University of Reading, Department of Meteorology and National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), Reading, United Kingdom, (5)University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, (6)University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom, (7)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (8)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands, (9)Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Climate Simulations and Predictions Division, Bologna, Italy, (10)INGV National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Forli, Italy, (11)Institut Català de Ciències del Clima, Barcelona, Spain, (12)Météo-France, CNRM/GMGEC/AMACS, Toulouse, France, (13)CERFACS, Toulouse, France, (14)CERFACS European Centre for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computation, Toulouse Cedex 01, France, (15)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, The Ocean in the Earth System, Hamburg, Germany, (16)ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom, (17)European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom, (18)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (19)University of California Davis, Land, Air & Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States, (20)JAMSTEC, Kanagawa, Japan, (21)Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan, (22)JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan, (23)Texas A&M University, Oceanography, College Station, United States, (24)Texas A&M University, College Station, United States, (25)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (26)NCAR/CGD, Boulder, CO, United States, (27)Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China

Eric A Hendricks, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Jason C. Knievel, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States and David S Nolan, University of Miami, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Miami, FL, United States

Rosimar Rios-Berrios¹, George H Bryan², Falko Judt³ and Christopher A Davis¹, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology, Boulder, CO, United States

Wenchang Yang, Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, Gabriel Andres Vecchi, Princeton University, Department of Geosciences and Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton, NJ, United States and Tsung-Lin Hsieh, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States