Hamideh Safa, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Keith N Musselman, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, United States; Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States, Sebastian A. Krogh, University of Nevada, Reno, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, United States and Adrian Adam Harpold, University of Nevada Reno, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, NV, United States

Shaghayegh Akbarpour, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada and James R Craig, University of Waterloo, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada

Ines Sanchez-Rodriguez, University of Saskatchewan, Environment and Sustainability, Saskatoon, SK, Canada and Andrew M Ireson, Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

Guo-Yue Niu, University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States

Jordan Borak, University of Maryland/ESSIC & NASA/Goddard Space Flight Ctr, College Park, MD, United States, Michael F Jasinski, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Natthachet Tangdamrongsub, University of Maryland/ESSIC & NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, College Park, MD, United States

Sebastian Apers¹, Michel Bechtold^1,2, Andrew J Baird³, Alex Cobb⁴, Greta Christina Dargie³, Hidayat Hidayat^5,6, Takashi Hirano⁷, Alison Hoyt⁸, Yoshiyukii Ishii⁹, Ayob Katimon¹⁰, Randal D Koster¹¹, Maija Lampela¹², Sarith P P Mahanama^11,13, Lulie Melling¹⁴, Susan Elizabeth Page¹⁵, Rolf H Reichle¹¹, Hidenori Takahashi¹⁶, Mohammed Taufik¹⁷, Jan Vanderborght¹⁸ and Gabrielle J.M. De Lannoy¹, (1)KU Leuven, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Heverlee, Belgium, (2)KU Leuven, Department of Computer Science, Heverlee, Belgium, (3)University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, United Kingdom, (4)Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), Singapore, Singapore, (5)Centre for Limnology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Cibinong, Indonesia, (6)Wageningen University, Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group, Wageningen, Netherlands, (7)Hokkaido University, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Sapporo, Japan, (8)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, CA, United States, (9)Hokkaido University, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Saporro, Japan, (10)Universiti Malaysia Perlis, School of Bioprocess Engineering, Arau, Malaysia, (11)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (12)University of Helsinki, Department of Forest Science, Helsinki, Finland, (13)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (14)Sarawak Tropical Peat Research Laboratory Unit, Chief Minister's Department, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, (15)University of Leicester, Department of Geography, Leicester, United Kingdom, (16)Hokkaido University, Hokkaido Institute of Hydro-climate, Saporro, Japan, (17)Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), Department of Geophysics and Meteorology, Bogor, Indonesia, (18)Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Agrosphere (IBG-3), Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, Jülich, Germany

Daniel P Sarmiento, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Kimberly Slinski, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrologic Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Amy McNally, US Agency for International Development, Falls Church, United States, Chris C Funk, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Pete Peterson, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States

Mukul Tewari, Campbell Watson, Vincent W Moriarty and Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM Research USA, Yorktown Heights, NY, United States

Shaini Naha¹, Miguel Angel Rico-Ramirez² and Rafael Rosolem¹, (1)University of Bristol, Civil Engineering, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom, (2)University of Bristol, Civil Engineering, Bristol, United Kingdom

Hsi-Kai Chou, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF24, United Kingdom, ANA Maria HEUMINSKI DE Avila, UNICAMP State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil and Michaela Bray, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Seungwon Chung, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Zong-Liang Yang, Univ Texas Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Ahmad A Tavakoly, University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States; US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS, United States

Yiwen Mei, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Hong Xuan Do, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, School for Environment and Sustainability, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Andrew Gronewold, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Allison L Steiner, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Richard B Rood, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Parisa Heidary¹, Leila Farhadi¹ and Muhammad Umer Altaf², (1)George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States, (2)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Ruochen Sun and Qingyun Duan, Hohai University, College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Nanjing, China