Alejandro Tejedor^1,2, Jon Schwenk³, Maarten G Kleinhans⁴, Paul A Carling⁵ and Efi Foufoula-Georgiou², (1)Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, (2)University of California Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)Utrecht University, Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands, (5)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom