Joshua B Fisher¹, Forrest S Melton², Elizabeth Middleton³, Christopher Hain⁴, Martha Anderson⁵, Richard G Allen⁶, Matthew F McCabe⁷, Simon J Hook⁸, Dennis D Baldocchi⁹, Philip A Townsend¹⁰, Ayse Kilic, Kevin P Tu¹², Diego G. Miralles¹³, Johan Perret¹⁴, Jean-Pierre Lagouarde¹⁵, Duane Edward Waliser¹⁶, Adam J Purdy¹⁷, Andrew N French¹⁸, David Schimel¹⁹, James S Famiglietti²⁰, Graeme L Stephens¹ and Eric F Wood²¹, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)CSU Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Cen., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)National Integrated Drought Information System, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, United States, (6)Univ Idaho, Kimberly, ID, United States, (7)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, (8)LimnoTech, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (9)University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States, (10)University of Wisconsin, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, WI, United States, (11)Theiss Research, La Jolla, CA, United States, (12)Ghent University, Laboratory of Hydrology and Water Management, Ghent, Belgium, (13)EARTH University, Soil Management and Precision Agriculture, Liberia, Costa Rica, (14)ISPA, Bordeaux, France, (15)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (16)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (17)Organization Not Listed, USDA/AR, Washington, DC, United States, (18)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (19)Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (20)Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States