Stephen G Yeager^1,2, Gokhan Danabasoglu^1,2, Ping Chang^2,3, Alper Altuntas^1,2, Frank Bryan¹, Frederic S Castruccio^1,2, Who M Kim¹, Elizabeth Maroon^1,4, Justin Small^1,2, Lixin Wu^2,5 and Shaoqing Zhang^2,6, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)International Laboratory for High-Resolution Earth System Prediction (iHESP), College Station, TX, United States, (3)Texas A & M Univ, College Station, TX, United States, (4)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (5)Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China, (6)Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China