Gustavo M Marques¹, Ian Grooms², Frank Bryan³, Alper Altuntas⁴, Gokhan Danabasoglu³, Kristen M. Krumhardt⁵, William Large⁶, Keith T Lindsay⁶ and Michael Levy³, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Applied Mathematics, Boulder, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, Boulder, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NCAR, Boulder, United States, (6)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States