David Conway Lafferty, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States, Samantha Hartke, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Denver, United States, Ryan L Sriver, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States, Andrew James Newman, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Ethan D Gutmann, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Hydrometeorological Applications Program, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Flavio Lehner, Cornell University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, United States, Paul Aaron Ullrich, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, PCMDI, Livermore, United States and Vivek Srikrishnan, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States