Shraddhanand Shukla¹, Alkhalil Adoum², Gregory J Husak¹, Frank Davenport¹, William A Turner³, Kathryn Grace⁴, Christopher Funk⁵ and Amy McNally⁶, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)AGRiculture HYdrology and METeorology Regional Centre, Nimaey, Niger, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (4)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, United States, (5)USGS, Baltimore, MD, United States, (6)US Agency for International Development, Falls Church, United States