Juliane Mai¹, Bryan Tolson¹, Hongren Shen¹, Etienne Gaborit², Vincent Fortin³, Milena Dimitrijevic⁴, Nicolas Gasset⁵, Dorothy Durnford⁵, Young Lan Shin⁵, Tricia Anne Stadnyk⁶, Oyémonbadé Hervé Rodrigue Awoye⁷, Lauren M Fry⁸, Emily A Bradley⁹, Tim Hunter¹⁰, Andrew Gronewold¹¹, Joeseph Smith¹², Lacey Mason¹³, Laura Read¹⁴, Katelyn FitzGerald¹⁵, Kevin Michael Sampson¹⁵, Alan F Hamlet¹⁶, Frank Seglenieks¹⁷, André Guy Tranquille Temgoua¹⁸, Shervan Gharari¹⁹, Saman Razavi²⁰, Amin Haghnegahdar²¹, Mohamed Elshamy²¹, Daniel G. Princz²², Alain Pietroniro²³, Xiaojing Ni²⁴, Yongping Yuan²⁵, Mohammad Reza Najafi²⁶, Melika Rahimimovaghar²⁶, Martin Gauch²⁷, Jimmy Lin²⁷ and Raphael Tang²⁷, (1)University of Waterloo, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (2)Environment Canada, Environmental Numerical Prediction Research, Dorval, QC, Canada, (3)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Environmental Numerical Prediction Research, Dorval, QC, Canada, (4)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Science and Technology, Dorval, QC, Canada, (5)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Meteorological Service of Canada, Dorval, QC, Canada, (6)University of Calgary, Department of Geography, Calgary, AB, Canada, (7)University of Manitoba, Department of Civil Engineering, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, (8)US Army Corps of Engineers - Detroit District, Office of Great Lakes Hydraulics and Hydrology, Detroit, MI, United States, (9)US Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit, United States, (10)NOAA-Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (11)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, United States, (12)Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (13)University of Michigan, Institute for Fisheries Research, School for Environment & Sustainability, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (14)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (15)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (16)University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (17)Environment and Climate Change Canada, National Hydrological Services, Burlington, ON, Canada, (18)University of Douala, Faculte des sciences, Projet UNESCO-HP, Douala, Cameroon, (19)University of Saskatchewan, School of Environment and Sustainability (SENS), Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (20)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (21)Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (22)University of Saskatchewan, Global Institute for Water Security, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (23)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (24)US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Durham, United States, (25)US Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, (26)University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, (27)University of Waterloo, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada