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## Authors and Affiliations

Minh T. Ha¹ ID · Sophie Bastin¹ · Philippe Drobinski² · L. Fita³ · J. Polcher² · O. Bock⁴,⁵ · M. Chiriaco¹ · D. Belušić⁶,¹⁷ ·

C. Caillaud⁷ · A. Dobler⁸ · J. Fernandez⁹ · K. Goergen¹⁰ · Ø. Hodnebrog¹¹ · S. Kartsios¹² · E. Katragkou¹² ·

A. Lavin-Gullon⁹ · T. Lorenz¹³ · J. Milovac⁹ · H.-J. Panitz¹⁴ · S. Sobolowski¹³ · H. Truhetz¹⁵ · K. Warrach-Sagi¹⁶ ·

V. Wulfmeyer¹⁶

¹ Laboratoire ATmosphere Milieux Observations Spatiales (LATMOS)/Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL), Sorbonne Université, UVSQ Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, ParisGuyancourt, France

² Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD)/IPSL, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, Palaiseau, France

³ Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera (CIMA), CONICET-UBA, CNRS IRL-IFAECI, Buenos Aires, Argentina

⁴ Université de Paris. Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, CNRS, 75005 Paris, IGN, France

⁵ ENSG-Géomatique, IGN, 77455 Marne-la-Vallée, France

⁶ Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), Norrkoping, Sweden

⁷ CNRM, CNRS Université Paul Sabatier, Meteo-France, Toulouse, France

⁸ Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Henrik Mohns Plass 1, 0313 Oslo, Norway

⁹ Meteorology Group, Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Univ. Cantabria, Santander, Spain

¹⁰ Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-3, Agrosphere), Research Centre Julich, Julich, Germany

¹¹ Center for International Climate Research (CICERO), Oslo, Norway

¹² Department of Meteorology and Climatology, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

¹³ NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
¹⁴ Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology (KIT), IMK-TRO), Karlsruhe,
Germany

¹⁵ Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change (WEGC),
University of Graz, Graz, Austria

¹⁶ Institute of Physics and Meteorology, University
of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

¹⁷ Department of Geophysics, Faculty of Science, University
of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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¹⁴ Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology (KIT), IMK-TRO), Karlsruhe,
Germany

¹⁵ Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change (WEGC),
University of Graz, Graz, Austria

¹⁶ Institute of Physics and Meteorology, University
of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

¹⁷ Department of Geophysics, Faculty of Science, University
of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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