Denise Worthen¹, Jessica Meixner², Bin Li^2,3, Jiande Wang⁴, Lydia B Stefanova^2,5, Avichal Mehra², Suranjana Saha², Vijay Tallapragada², Brandon G Reichl⁶, Stephen Griffies⁷, Alistair Adcroft⁸ and Robert Hallberg⁹, (1)IMSG/National Centers For Environmental Prediction-Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD, United States, (2)National Centers For Environmental Prediction-Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD, United States, (3)IMSG, College Park, MD, United States, (4)IMSG AT EMC/NCEP/NOAA, Poznan, Poland, (5)IMSG at NCEP/EMC, College Park, FL, United States, (6)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (7)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, United States, (8)Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (9)NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States