Sankarasubramanian Arumugam, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States, Qingyun Duan, Beijing Normal University, Institute of Land Surface System and Sustainable Development, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Beijing, China, Hamid Moradkhani, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, Balaji Rajagopalan, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering and CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States and Andy Wood, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States