Manuela Irene Brunner, WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Mountain Hydrology and Mass Movements, Birmensdorf, Switzerland and Lena Merete Tallaksen, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Shengzhi Huang¹, Wei Fang¹, Qiang Huang², Lin Ye¹ and Erhao Meng¹, (1)Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an, China, (2)Xi'an University of Technology, School of Water Resources and Hydropower, Xi'an, China

Gebremedhin Gebremeskel Haile¹, Qiuhong Tang², Guoyong Leng¹, Guoqiang Jia¹, Jie Wang², Diwen Cai¹, Siao Sun¹, Binod Baniya¹ and Qinghuan Zhang¹, (1)Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, China

David Hoffmann¹, Ailie Gallant¹, Julie Arblaster² and Mike Hobbins³, (1)Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, (2)Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, (3)National Integrated Drought Information System, Boulder, CO, United States

Chen HU¹, Jun Xia¹, Dunxian She², Lingcheng Li³, Zhihong Song¹ and Si Hong², (1)Wuhan University, School of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, Wuhan, China, (2)Wuhan University, College of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, Wuhan, China, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States

Eklavyya Popat¹, Robert Reinecke¹, Andreas Enders², Ehsan Eyshi Rezaei³, Malte Weller⁴, Stefan Siebert⁴ and Petra M Doll^1,5, (1)Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute of Physical Geography, Frankfurt, Germany, (2)University of Bonn, Institute for Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Bonn, Germany, (3)University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, (4)University of Göttingen, Institute for Crop Science, Göttingen, Germany, (5)Senckenberg Leibniz Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Agnes Nalukwago, Jamiat Nanteza and Isaac Mugume, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Noe Isaac Santos, Bureau of Reclamation, Boulder Canyon Operations Office, Boulder City, NV, United States, Thomas C. Piechota, Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States, William P Miller, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States and Sajjad Ahmad, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction, Las Vegas, NV, United States

Heey Jin Kim, Yonsei University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South) and Yeonjoo Kim, Yonsei University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seoul, South Korea

Jun Li, South China University of Technology, Tianhe, China and Xushu Wu SR., south china university of China, Guangzhou, China

Woon Mi Kim and Christoph Raible, University of Bern, Climate and Environmental Physics, Bern, Switzerland

Michael D Dettinger, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, La Jolla, CA, United States

Tushar Apurv, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States and Ximing Cai, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States

Woubet G. Alemu, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States, Assefa M Melesse, Florida Intl Univ, Miami, FL, United States and Gabriel B Senay, U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science, EROS/ North Central Climate Science Center, Fort Collins, CO, United States

Zhihong Song¹, Jun Xia¹, Dunxian She¹, Liping Zhang¹, Lei Zou² and Chen HU¹, (1)Wuhan University, School of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, Wuhan, China, (2)Key Laboratory of Water Cycle & Related Land Surface Processes, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jiri Miksovsky^1,2, Michal Belda³, Miroslav Trnka^2,4 and Rudolf Brázdil^2,5, (1)Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Atmospheric Physics, Prague, 180, Czech Republic, (2)Global Change Research Institute CAS, Brno, Czech Republic, (3)Charles University, Dept. of Atmospheric Physics, Prague, 180, Czech Republic, (4)Mendel University, Department of Agrosystems and Bioclimatology, Brno, Czech Republic, (5)Masaryk University, Institute of Geography, Brno, Czech Republic

Francesco Avanzi¹, Joseph P. Rungee II², Tessa Maurer¹, Roger C Bales², Qin Ma², Steven D Glaser³ and Martha H Conklin⁴, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States, (3)University of California, Berkeley, United States, (4)University of California Merced, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Merced, CA, United States

Saran Aadhar and Vimal Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, 382, India

Jose A Marengo, CEMADEN, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil, Ana Paula Cunha Ms, CEMADEN, Research and Development, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil and Carlos Nobre, USP, IEA, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Jacob Scheff, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States, Sloan Coats, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Haibo Liu, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States

Tsegaye Tadesse¹, David Y Hollinger², Yared A Bayissa¹, Getachew Berhan Demisse³, Mark D. Svoboda⁴ and Brian Fuchs⁴, (1)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (3)Climate Science Center, Addis Ababa University, Climate Science Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, (4)University of Nebraska-Lincoln, National Drought Mitigation Center, Lincoln, NE, United States

Jordan I. Christian and Jeffrey B Basara, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States

Laurie Huning and Amir AghaKouchak, University of California, Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States

Nada Ben Mhenni¹, Masato Shinoda¹ and Banzragch Nandintsetseg^1,2, (1)Nagoya University, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya, Japan, (2)National University of Mongolia, School of Arts and Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Faridah NALWANGA Sendagire, Jamiat Nanteza and Joseph Obua, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Sea Jin Kim¹, Joseph Ahn¹, Chul-Hee Lim², Sugyeong Park³, Minwoo Roh¹ and Woo-Kyun Lee¹, (1)Korea University, Department of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Seoul, South Korea, (2)Korea University, Institute of Life Science and Natural Resources, Seoul, South Korea, (3)Korea University, Department of Climatic Environment, Seoul, South Korea

Samuel Jonson Sutanto¹, Melati van der Weert1¹, Niko Wanders², Veit Blauhut³ and Henny Van Lanen⁴, (1)Wageningen University and Research Center, Wageningen, Netherlands, (2)Utrecht University, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands, (3)University of Freiburg, Freiberg, Germany, (4)Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands

Abhishek Pathak, Research Scholar, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, Applied Mechanics and Hydraulics, Surathkal, Mangalore, India and Basavanand M Dodamani, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Department of Applied Mechanics and Hydraulics, Karnataka, India

Won-Ho Nam, Hankyong National University, Department of Bioresources and Rural Systems Engineering, Institute of Agricultural Environmental Science, Anseong, South Korea, Taegon Kim, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Institute on the Environment, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Eun-Mi Hong, Kangwon National University, School of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Chuncheon, South Korea, Song Feng, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States and Michael J Hayes, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, School of Natural Resources, Lincoln, NE, United States

Mikolaj Piniewski¹, Paweł Marcinkowski¹, Joanna O'Keeffe¹, Mateusz Szcześniak¹, Anna Nieróbca², Jerzy Kozyra², Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz³ and Tomasz Okruszko¹, (1)Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warszawa, Poland, (2)Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation - State Research Institute, Puławy, Poland, (3)Institute for Agricultural and Forest Environment, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland

Michelle O'Donnell¹, Andrew Badger² and Ben Livneh², (1)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States

Jacob Palmer, Adam Schreiner-McGraw and Hoori Ajami, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States

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

Angelina Arcuri, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Geography & Environmental Resources, Carbondale, United States and Trent Ford, Southern Illinois University, Geography and Environmental Resources, Carbondale, IL, United States

Luiz Felippe Gozzo, UNESP Sao Paulo State University, Physics, Bauru, Brazil, Anita Drumond, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Diadema, Brazil, Doris Santos Palma and Maria de Souza Custodio, UNESP Sao Paulo State University, Bauru, Brazil

Gauranshi Raj Singh¹, Dhanya C.T¹ and Aniket Chakravorty², (1)Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Civil Engineering, New Delhi, India, (2)North Eastern Space Application Centre, Shillong, India

Shanti Mahto, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India and Vimal Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, 382, India

Justin Sheffield¹, Adelaide Hitchings², Anil Mishra³, Renee Gift⁴ and Astrid Vannoppen⁴, (1)University of Southampton, Geography and Environment, Southampton, United Kingdom, (2)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (3)UNESCO International Hydrological Programme (IHP), Division of Water Sciences, Paris, France, (4)UNESCO Paris, Paris Cedex 15, France

Rina Ueda¹, Murray Cameron Peel² and Shinjiro Kanae¹, (1)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tokyo, Japan, (2)The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

Kenta Koyanagi¹, Stefan Seeger¹, Julia Annick Schwarz², Georgios Skiadaresis², Andreas Christen³ and Jens Lange¹, (1)University of Freiburg, Chair of Hydrology, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Freiburg, Germany, (2)University of Freiburg, Chair of Silviculture, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Freiburg, Germany, (3)University of Freiburg, Chair of Environmental Meteorology, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Freiburg, Germany

Vivek Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India and Manoj Kumar Jain, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Department of Hydrology, Roorkee, India

Dimitris A. Herrera¹, Toby Ault² and Carlos M. Carrillo¹, (1)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (2)Cornell University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science, Ithaca, NY, United States

Charles N. Kroll, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, United States, Brenden Covert, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Environmental Resources Engineering, Syracuse, NY, United States, Craig R Ferguson, SUNY at Albany, Albany, NY, United States and Tong Wan, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Environmental Science, Syracuse, NY, United States

Sahil Jain, Saran Aadhar and Vimal Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, 382, India

Doris Elise Wendt, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom, Anne Van Loon, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Bridget R Scanlon, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States and David M Hannah, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom

Benjamin Cash¹, Natalie Burls², Ross C. Blamey³, Erik Swenson⁴, Abdullah Al Fahad¹, Mary-Jane M Bopape⁵, David M Straus⁶ and C.J.C Reason³, (1)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, (2)Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, (3)University of Cape Town, Department of Oceanography, Cape Town, South Africa, (4)George Mason University Fairfax, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Fairfax, VA, United States, (5)South African Weather Service, Pretoria, South Africa, (6)George Mason Univ, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Earth Sciences, Fairfax, VA, United States

Bala Narapusetty, Climate Prediction Center College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Dan C Collins, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Climate Prediction Center, College Park, MD, United States, Arun Kumar, NOAA/NCEP, College Park, MD, United States, Raghuram G Murtugudde, Univ of MD--ESSIC, College Park, MD, United States, Christa D Peters-Lidard, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Upmanu Lall, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States

Edwin P Maurer, Santa Clara University, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering, Santa Clara, CA, United States, Iris T Stewart, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, United States and Kenneth Joseph, Santa Clara University, Bioengineering, Santa Clara, CA, United States

Kelsey Jencso¹, Zachary Harwood Hoylman¹, Zack Holden², Michael Downey³, Troy Blanford⁴, Kyle Bocinsky^5,6 and Kevin Hyde⁵, (1)University of Montana, Montana Climate Office, Missoula, MT, United States, (2)US Forest Service Missoula, Missoula, MT, United States, (3)Department of Natural Resources Montana, Water Planning, Helena, MT, United States, (4)Montana State Library, Geographic Information, Helena, MT, United States, (5)Montana Climate Office, Missoula, MT, United States, (6)Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, CO, United States

Emma E. Aalbers^1,2, Erik van Meijgaard¹, Geert Lenderink¹, Hylke de Vries¹, Rein Haarsma¹ and Bart van den Hurk^2,3, (1)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands, (2)Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (3)Deltares, Delft, Netherlands

Sneha Shrinivas Kulkarni, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India and Shirish S Gedam, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering, Mumbai, India

Trevor McKellar¹, Michael Crimmins¹, Marcel G Schaap¹, Craig Rasmussen¹ and Ty P A Ferre², (1)University of Arizona, Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States

Tim J Peterson, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia, Murray Cameron Peel, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia and Margarita Saft, University of Melbourne, Infrastructure Engineering, Parkville, Australia

Mirzokhid Mirshadiev¹, Luuk Fleskens² and Jos van Dam², (1)PhD researcher, Soil Physics and Land Management Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, (2)Associate Professor, Soil Physics and Land Management Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands

Lisi Pei, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States, Lifeng Luo, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States and Youlong Xia, Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD, United States

Steven Gerardo Sandi¹, Jose Fernando Rodriguez², Patricia M Saco², Neil Saintilan³, Li Wen⁴, George A. Kuczera¹ and Gerardo Riccardi⁵, (1)University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia, (2)Univ Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia, (3)Macquarie University, North Ryde, Australia, (4)Office of Environment and Heritage, Sydney, Australia, (5)Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina

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