Vimal Mishra¹, Amar Deep Tiwari¹, Reepal Shah², Mu Xiao³, Sivanada Pai⁴ and Dennis P Lettenmaier⁵, (1)Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, 382, India, (2)Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, India, (3)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)Indian Meteorological Department, Pune, India, (5)UCLA, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States