Clara Deser and Adam Phillips, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States

Min-Seop Ahn¹, Peter J Gleckler¹, Jiwoo Lee¹, Angeline G Pendergrass² and Christian Jakob³, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, (3)Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Yongyun Hu, Peking University, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Beijing, China, Yan Xia, Peking University, Beijing, China and Jiping LIU, SUNY at Albany, Albany, NY, United States

Mark D Zelinka¹, Timothy Myers², Daniel McCoy³, Stephen Po-Chedley¹, Peter Martin Caldwell¹, Paulo Ceppi⁴, Stephen A Klein¹, Karl E. Taylor⁵, Ryan C Scott⁶ and Joel R Norris⁶, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States, (3)University of Wyoming, Laramie, United States, (4)Grantham Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, (5)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI), Livermore, CA, United States, (6)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States

Achala Denagamage¹, Zhibo Zhang¹, Michal Segal-Rosenhaimer², Jianwu Wang³, Sahara Ali¹ and Neranga Prasadi Kaluappuwa Hannadige¹, (1)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Information Systems, Baltimore, MD, United States

Hideaki Kawai¹, Seiji Yukimoto², Tsuyoshi Koshiro¹, Naga Oshima³, Taichu Y Tanaka⁴, Hiromasa Yoshimura² and Ryoji Nagasawa², (1)Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan, (2)Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan, (3)Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Japan, (4)Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan

Paul Dirmeyer¹, Finley Hay-Chapman¹, Kai Huang¹, Scott Knapp¹, Mary Korendyke¹, Nikki Lydeen² and Zachary Manthos², (1)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, (2)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, United States

Polina Khapikova¹, Vincent Humphrey¹ and Christian Frankenberg^1,2, (1)California Institute of Technology, Environmental Science and Engineering, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States