Yuan Yang¹, Ming Pan¹, Hylke Beck², Dongmei Feng³, Augusto Getirana⁴, Chaopeng Shen⁵, Dai Yamazaki⁶, Colin J Gleason⁷, Peirong Lin⁸ and Cedric H David⁹, (1)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, La Jolla, United States, (2)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Physical Science and Engineering Division, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, (3)University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Ohio, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, United States, (6)The University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, Tokyo, Japan, (7)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, United States, (8)Peking University, Beijing, China, (9)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States