Yan Li, Beijing Normal University, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Beijing, China, Kaiyu Guan, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States, Bin Peng, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana, IL, United States, Trenton Franz, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, Brian Wardlow, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States and Ming Pan, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States