I-I Lin¹, Suzana Camargo², Christina M Patricola³, Julien Boucharel⁴, Savin Chand⁵, Philip Klotzbach⁶, Johnny Chung Leung Chan⁷, Bin Wang⁸, Ping Chang⁹, Tim Li⁸ and Fei-Fei Jin¹⁰, (1)National Taiwan University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan, (2)Columbia University, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Meteorology, Honolulu, HI, United States, (5)Federation University, ACT, Australia, (6)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (7)City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (8)Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States, (9)Texas A & M Univ, College Station, TX, United States, (10)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States