Helene R. Langehaug^1,2, Francois Counillon³, Noel Keenlyside⁴, Elizabeth Maroon⁵, Daniela Matei⁶, Juliette Mignot⁷, Pablo Ortega⁸, Shuting Yang⁹, Yiguo Wang¹ and Stephen G Yeager¹⁰, (1)Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Bergen, Norway, (2)Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway, (3)Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre, Bergen, Norway, (4)University of Bergen and Bjerknes Centre, Bergen, Norway, (5)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, (7)LOCEAN-IPSL, Paris cedex 05, France, (8)Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Earth Sciences, Barcelona, Spain, (9)Danish Meteorological Institute, København Ø, Denmark, (10)NCAR, Oceanography, Boulder, CO, United States