Lei Zhang, University of Colorado Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Weiqing Han, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Kristopher B Karnauskas, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Gerald Meehl, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Aixue Hu, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Nan A Rosenbloom, NCAR/CGD, Boulder, CO, United States and Toshiaki Shinoda, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX, United States