Venkata Shashank Konduri, Northeastern University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, MA, United States, Jitendra Kumar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Forrest M. Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Earth Sciences Group and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and William Walter Hargrove, USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States