Ming Pan¹, Yuan Yang², Peirong Lin³, Hylke Beck⁴, Chaopeng Shen⁵, Dai Yamazaki⁶, Dapeng Feng⁷, Matthew Heberger⁸, Zhenzhong Zeng⁹, Ather Abbas⁴, Cedric H David¹⁰, Michael T Durand¹¹, Tamlin Pavelsky¹², Renato P. M. Frasson¹³, George H. Allen¹⁴, Colin J Gleason¹⁵, Hui Lu¹⁶, Kun Yang¹⁷, Yang Hong¹⁸, Qiusheng Wu¹⁹, Weiming Hu²⁰, Agniv Sengupta²¹, Luca Delle Monache²¹, Bo Guo²² and Robert Hartman²³, (1)Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States, (2)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, La Jolla, United States, (3)Peking University, Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China, (4)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Physical Science and Engineering Division, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, (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)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, United States, (8)San Francisco Estuary Institute, Richmond, United States, (9)Peking University, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Beijing, China, (10)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (11)Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States, (12)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, United States, (13)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (14)Virginia Tech, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States, (15)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, United States, (16)Tsinghua University, Department of Earth System Science, Beijing, China, (17)Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (18)University of Oklahoma, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Norman, United States, (19)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Department of Geography & Sustainability, Knoxville, United States, (20)James Madison University, School of Integrated Sciences, Harrisonburg, United States, (21)Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States, (22)University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tuscon, United States, (23)Robert K. Hartman Consulting Associates, Roseville, United States