Vijay Tallapragada¹, Yuejian Zhu², Jessica Meixner³, Suranjana Saha¹, Avichal Mehra¹, Arun Chawla⁴, Jason Levit⁵, Ivanka Stajner⁶, Brian Gross⁷, Yan Xue⁸, Dorothy M Koch⁹ and Farida Adimi¹⁰, (1)National Centers For Environmental Prediction-Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Organization Not Listed, United States, (4)NOAA, NCEP, College Park, United States, (5)NOAA/NCEP/EMC, College PARK, MD, United States, (6)NOAA, National Weather Service, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)NOAA, NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD, United States, (8)NOAA/NWS/OSTI, MD, United States, (9)NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (10)Office of Science and Technology Integration, Clarksville, MD, United States