Phu Nguyen¹, Vu Dao², Tu Ung³, Mohammad bolboli Zadeh², Claudia Jimenez Arellano⁴, Nazak Rouzegari², Kuo-lin Hsu⁴, Amir AghaKouchak⁴, Soroosh Sorooshian⁴ and F Martin Ralph⁵, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States, (4)University of California, Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States, (5)Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States