Pete Peterson¹, Christopher Funk², George John Huffman³, Martin Francis Landsfeld⁴, Alexander C Ruane⁵, Ashutosh S Limaye⁶, Meridel Phillips⁷ and Gregory J Husak⁴, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)USGS, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (6)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, (7)Columbia University, New York, NY, United States