Hamideh Ebrahimi, JCSDA/ GMAO, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Guillaume Vernires, JCSDA/UCAR/NOAA, United States, Rahul Mahajan, NASA/GMAO, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Travis Cole Sluka, Climate Prediction Center/NCEP, Innovim, LLC, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States and Daniel Holdaway, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States