Chris C Funk^1,2, Gregory J Husak¹, Ted Veldkamp³, Jesslyn F Brown⁴, Bruce K Wylie⁵, John L Dwyer⁶, Shrad Shukla⁷, Pete Peterson⁷, James Rowland⁸, Gabriel B Senay⁹ and Michael E Budde¹⁰, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survey EROS Center / FEWS NET, Sioux Falls, United States, (3)Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Amsterdam, Netherlands, (4)USGS/EROS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, (5)USGS EROS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, (6)U.S. Geological Survey EROS Center, Department of the Interior, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, (7)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States, (8)U.S. Geological Survey, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, (9)U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science, EROS/ North Central Climate Science Center, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (10)Earth Resources Observation Systems Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, SD, United States