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1 The Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia

2 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, Melbourne, Australia

3 The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

4 Papua New Guinea National Weather Service (PNG NWS), Port Moresby, PNG

5 The Climate Prediction Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Washington DC, USA

6 The Earth Observation Research Center, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Tsukuba, Japan

7 The World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

\*Address all correspondence to: yuriy.kuleshov@bom.gov.au

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