Sha Zhou, Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Park Williams, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Alexis M Berg, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, Benjamin Cook, NASA-GISS, New York, NY, United States, Yao Zhang, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, New York, United States, Stefan Hagemann, Heimholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Geesthacht, Germany, Ruth Lorenz, ETH Zurich, Zurich, NY, Switzerland, Sonia I Seneviratne, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland and Pierre Gentine, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States