Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, The NetherlandsMet Éireann, Dublin, IrelandEuropean Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United KingdomDanish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, DenmarkSwedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, SwedenLisbon University, Lisbon, PortugalBarcelona Supercomputing Centre, Barcelona, SpainMétéo-France, Toulouse, FranceUniversity College Dublin, Dublin, IrelandStockholm University, Stockholm, SwedenBarcelona Supercomputing Centre, Barcelona, Spain, and University of Murcia, Murcia, SpainUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, United KingdomSpanish Meteorological Agency (AEMET), Madrid, SpainFederal Institute of Technology, Zürich, SwitzerlandIrish Centre for High End Computing, Dublin, IrelandUniversité Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, BelgiumMeteorological Institute, Lisbon, PortugalCORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Wilco Hazeleger, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, P.O. Box 201, 3730 AE, De Bilt, The Netherlands, E-mail: wilco.hazeleger@knmi.nl