Wenda Zhang, Princeton University, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, United States, Yi-Hung Kuo, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Simone Silvestri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, Alistair Adcroft, Program for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, United States, Robert Hallberg, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States and Stephen Griffies, Princeton University, Princeton, United States