Jennifer Balch, University of Colorado, Earth Lab & CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, Park Williams, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Bethany Bradley, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Environmental Conservation, Amherst, MA, United States, John T Abatzoglou, University of Idaho, Department of Geography, Moscow, ID, United States and Paulo M Brando, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, United States