Ashish Sharma, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Illinois State Water Survey and Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Champaign, IL, United States, Donald J Wuebbles, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States and Charlie Catlett, University of Illinois, Discovery Partners Institute, Chicago, IL, United States

Christopher Lynnes¹, Margaret Q Zhu¹, Jonathan Blythe², Tanja Nicole Williamson³, Jessica Burnett⁴, Elisabeth Huffer⁵, Edward M Armstrong⁶, James R Munroe⁷, Jeff Siarto⁸, Mark Reese⁸, James Norton⁸, Douglas J Newman⁹ and Christopher Durbin¹⁰, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Sterling, VA, United States, (3)USGS Kentucky Water Science Center, Louisville, KY, United States, (4)USGS Colorado Water Science Center Denver, Denver, CO, United States, (5)Lingua Logica, Denver, CO, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Memorial University of Nfld, St. John'''S, NL, Canada, (8)Element 84, Inc., Alexandria, VA, United States, (9)Raytheon, New York, NY, United States, (10)Raytheon, Riverdale, MD, United States

Kerstin Lehnert¹, Ramona Walls², Neil Davies³, Sarah Kansa⁴, John Kunze⁵, Sarah Ramdeen¹ and Dave Vieglais⁶, (1)Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)CyVerse, BIO5 Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Open Context, San Francisco, United States, (5)California Digital Library, Oakland, United States, (6)University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States

Ge Peng¹, Carlo Lacagnina², Robert R Downs³, Hampapuram Ramapriyan⁴, Ivana Ivanova⁵, David F Moroni⁶, Gilles Larnicol², Yaxing Wei⁷, Lucy Bastin⁸, Nancy A Ritchey⁹, Lesley A Wyborn¹⁰, Chung-Lin Shie¹¹, Ted Habermann¹², Anette Ganske¹³, Sarah M Champion¹⁴, Mingfang Wu¹⁵, Irina Bastrakova¹⁶, Dave Jones¹⁷, Gary Berg-Cross¹⁸ and ESIP FAIR-DQI Guidelines Working Group, (1)North Carolina State University, North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, Raleigh, NC, United States, (2)Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain, (3)Columbia University of New York, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Palisades, NY, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Curtin University, Perth, Australia, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (8)Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom, (9)National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC, United States, (10)Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (11)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (12)Metadata Game Changers, Denver, United States, (13)Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB), Hannover, Germany, (14)North Carolina State University, Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies, Leicester, NC, United States, (15)Australian Research Data Commons, Melbourne, Australia, (16)Geoscience Australia, National Location Information, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (17)StormCenter Communications, Halethorpe, MD, United States, (18)Independent Consultant, Potomac, MD, United States

Douglas Fils, Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Washington, DC, United States, Jess C Robertson, New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, Wellington, New Zealand, Sarah Ramdeen, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Jens F Klump, CSIRO Earth Science Resource Engineering, Perth, Australia

Sean McCartney, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, SSAI, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Ana I Prados, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States and Amita V Mehta, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, UMBC-JCET, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Valerie C Hendrix, Danielle S Christianson, Charuleka Varadharajan, Madison Burrus, Shreyas Cholia, You-Wei Cheah, Housen Chu, Robert Crystal-Ornelas, Joan E Damerow, Zarine Kakalia, Fianna O'Brien, Gilberto Pastorello, Emily Robles and Deb Agarwal, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States

Jacob Atkins^1,2, Irina Gerasimov^1,2 and Mohammad G Khayat^1,2, (1)ADNET Systems Inc. Lanham, Lanham, MD, United States, (2)Code 610.2, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States