Pierre Gentine, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Sonia I Seneviratne, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, Hugo Beltrami, St. Francis Xavier University, Environmental Sciences Program, Antigonish, NS, Canada, Edouard Davin, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Ronny Meier, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Almudena García-García, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Francisco José Cuesta-Valero, St. Francis Xavier University, Climate & Atmospheric Sciences Institute and Department of Earth Sciences, Antigonish, Canada