Mahmud Hasan, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Andrew Magee, University of Newcastle, Centre for Water, Climate and Land (CWCL), Callaghan, NSW, Australia, Andrew Lorrey, NIWA National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Auckland, New Zealand, Anthony Kiem, Centre for Water, Climate and Land (CWCL), University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia and Kim Colyvas, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Krishneel Sharma, University of Newcastle, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Callaghan, NSW, Australia, Andrew Magee, University of Newcastle, Centre for Water, Climate and Land (CWCL), Callaghan, NSW, Australia and Danielle Verdon-Kidd, The University of Newcastle, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Callaghan, Australia

Hyeong-Bin Cheong¹, Yejin Nam² and Chung-Hui Lee¹, (1)Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Pukyong National Univerisity, Busan, South Korea

Jennifer Saxby¹, Julia Anne Crook², Cathryn Ellen Birch², Christopher Holloway³, Huw Lewis⁴, Simon Peatman⁵ and Juliane Schwendike², (1)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (2)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom, (3)University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, (4)Met Office, UK, Exeter, United Kingdom, (5)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom

Biswajit Nath, University of Chittagong, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Chittagong, Bangladesh, Akshansha Chauhan, Sharda University, Uttar Pradesh, India, Mahendran Maruthamuthu, Amnex Infotechnologies Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad, India, Ramesh Singh, Chapman University, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Orange, CA, United States and Prasanjit Dash, NOAA STAR, College Park, United States

Alexander Baker, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Leeds, United Kingdom, Kevin Hodges, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, Malcolm J Roberts, Met Office Hadley center for Climate Change, Exeter, United Kingdom, Reinhard Schiemann, National Center for Atmospheric Science, Reading, United Kingdom, Rein Haarsma, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands and Pier Luigi Vidale, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology and National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), Reading, United Kingdom

Sridhara Nayak and Tetsuya Takemi, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Terence L Kubar, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Bjorn Lambrigtsen, Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States, Sun Wong, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Ali Behrangi, University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States

Chung-Hui Lee and Hyeong-Bin Cheong, Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea, Republic of (South)

Zhuo Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States, Gan Zhang, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States, Timothy J Dunkerton, Northwest Rsch Associates Inc, Bellevue, WA, United States and Fei-Fei Jin, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States

Adam Burnett¹, Aditi Sheshadri¹, Levi Glenn Silvers^2,3 and Thomas E Robinson Jr⁴, (1)Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Princeton University & The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)Stony Brook University, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook, United States, (4)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States

Bernhard Enz, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Ulrike Lohmann, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Xiaoyang LI¹, Ryuichi Kawamura¹, Atsuko Sugimoto^2,3 and Kei Yoshimura^4,5, (1)Kyushu University, Faculty of Science, Fukuoka, Japan, (2)Hokkaido University, Arctic Research Center, Sapporo, Japan, (3)Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Sapporo, Japan, (4)The University of Tokyo, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan, (5)The University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, Tokyo, Japan