Giuliano Di Baldassarre¹, Murugesu Sivapalan², Maria Rusca³, Christophe Cudennec⁴, Margaret Ellen Garcia⁵, Heidi Kreibich⁶, Megan Konar⁷, Elena Mondino⁸, Johanna Mård³, Saket Pande⁹, Matthew R Sanderson¹⁰, Fuqiang Tian¹¹, Alberto Viglione¹², Jing Wei¹³, Yongping Wei¹⁴, David J. Yu¹⁵, Veena Srinivasan¹⁶ and Guenter Bloeschl¹⁷, (1)Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science (CNDS), Uppsala, Sweden, (2)University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States, (3)Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, (4)Agrocampus Ouest, Rennes Cedex, France, (5)Tufts Univ, Somerville, MA, United States, (6)GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 4.4 Hydrology, Potsdam, Germany, (7)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (8)Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, (9)Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, (10)Kansas State University, Department of Sociology, Manhattan, KS, United States, (11)Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (12)Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, (13)Tsinghua University, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Beijing, China, (14)University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia, (15)Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (16)Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, (17)Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Vienna, Austria