Walter Arthur Petersen¹, Scott A Braun², Gerald G Mace³, Graeme L Stephens⁴, Duane Edward Waliser⁵, David M Winker⁶, Arlindo daSilva⁷, Jens Redemann⁸, Richard Anthony Ferrare⁶ and Meloe S Kacenelenbogen⁹, (1)Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Univ Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, (9)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States

Takuji Kubota, JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, EORC, Sagamihara, Japan, Shinta Seto, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Satoh Masaki, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan, Tomoe Nasuno, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, Toshio Iguchi, University of Maryland, Greenbelt, United States, Takeshi Masaki, RESTEC, Tsukuba, Japan, John M. Kwiatkowski, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, United States and Riko Oki, JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan

Mircea Grecu, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States and William S Olson, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, Baltimore, MD, United States

Merhala Thurai¹, Viswanathan N Bringi¹, Patrick N Gatlin², David B Wolff³, David A Marks⁴ and Charanjit Singh Pabla⁴, (1)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)NASA MSFC, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States

V.N. Bringi, Colorado State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Mircea Grecu, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States; Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States, Merhala Thurai, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Alain Protat, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia

Christopher R Williams, University of Colorado Boulder, Smead Aerospace Engineering Science, Boulder, CO, United States

Rachel L Storer¹, Matthew D Lebsock² and Derek J Posselt², (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States

Sajad Vahedizade and Ardehsir Ebtehaj, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering, Minneapolis, MN, United States

Lisa Milani, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States; University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), College PARK, United States, Veljko Petkovic, University of Maryland College Park, Cooperative Insititute for Satellite Earth System Studies, College Park, MD, United States and Marko Orescanin, Navy Postgraduate School, Department of Computer Science, Monterey, United States

Sarah D Bang and Daniel Cecil, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States

Derek J Posselt¹, Brian D Wilson², Rachel L Storer³, Matthew D Lebsock², George Duffy⁴, Berlin Chen⁵, Noppasin Niamsuwan⁵ and Simone Tanelli⁵, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Nashville, TN, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States

Takamichi Iguchi, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Wei-Kuo Tao, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Stephen E Lang, SSAI, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Yi Song, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States

Ruiyao Chen, Nashville, TN, United States and Ralf Bennartz, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States

Andrea Monet Portier, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/SSAI, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Dalia Kirschbaum, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Jackson Tan¹, George John Huffman², David T Bolvin³ and Eric Nelkin³, (1)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States

Hanii Takahashi¹, Matthew D Lebsock², Johnny Luo³, Hirohiko Masunaga⁴ and Cindy Wang^3,5, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, (4)Nagoya University, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University. Furo-cho Chikusa-ku., Nagoya, Japan, (5)City College of New York, New York, NY, United States

Jerry Xiong¹, Yaping Zhou^2,3, George John Huffman² and Levon Demirdjian⁴, (1)River Hill High School, Clarksville, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)Johnson & Johnson, San Diego, CA, United States

Alka Tiwari¹, Ankur Kumar², Udaysankar S Nair³, Venkatesh Merwade¹, Frank Marks⁴ and Dev Niyogi, (1)Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (2)Purdue University, Department of Agronomy and Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (3)University of Alabama in Huntsville Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)NOAA/AOML/Hurricane Research Division, Key Biscayne, FL, United States

Miguel Laverde^1,2, Chinaporn Meechaiya¹, Poortinga Ate³, Amanda (Weigel) Markert^4,5, Andrea Nicolau^5,6, Susantha Jayasinghe¹, Senaka Bandara Basnayake¹, Farrukh Chishtie³, Peeranan Towashiraporn¹, Gerald Corzo⁷, David S Saah^3,8, Remko Uijlenhoet⁹ and Dimitri P Solomatine^2,7, (1)Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, SERVIR-Mekong, Bangkok, Thailand, (2)Delft University of Technology, Water resources section, Delft, Netherlands, (3)Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, Alameda, CA, United States, (4)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (5)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, (6)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (7)IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Hydroinformatics, Delft, Netherlands, (8)University of San Francisco, Geospatial Analysis Lab, San Francisco, CA, United States, (9)Wageningen University and Research, Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group, Wageningen, Netherlands

Ankita Pradhan, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, J. Indu, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Department of Civil Engineering, Mumbai, India and Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter, University of Oklahoma, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences and School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States

Huihui Zhang¹, Qingyun Du¹ and HUGO A Loáiciga², (1)Wuhan University, Scool of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan, China, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Goleta, CA, United States

Clément Guilloteau and Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, University of California Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States

Robert Joyce, NOAA/NCEP Climate Prediction Center, College Park, United States, Pingping Xie, NOAA/NCEP, College Park, MD, United States and Shaorong Wu, Wyle-CPC/NCEP/NOAA, College Park, MD, United States

Olivier P Prat¹, Brian R Nelson², Ronald Leeper¹ and Scott Embler², (1)North Carolina State University, Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies (CISESS), Asheville, NC, United States, (2)NOAA Asheville, NCEI/CWC, Asheville, NC, United States

Zhen Hong¹, Zhi Li¹, Guoqiang Tang², Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter³ and Yang Hong⁴, (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (2)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (3)University of Oklahoma, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences and School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, (4)School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States

Andrew Badger^1,2, Christa Peters-Lidard¹ and Dalia Kirschbaum³, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Samykannu Venkadesh, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Agro Climate Research Centre, Coimbatore, India, Sellaperumal Pazhanivelan, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Remote Sensing and GIS, Coimbatore, India and Ponraj Arumugam, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany

David T Bolvin¹, George John Huffman², Eric Nelkin¹ and Jackson Tan³, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Matin Rahnamay Naeini¹, Mojtaba Sadeghi¹, Phu Nguyen², Kuo-lin Hsu¹ and Soroosh Sorooshian³, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)UC Irvine, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)Univ California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States

Yalei You¹, Veljko Petkovic², Jackson Tan³, Rachael Kroodsma^4,5, Wesley K Berg⁶, Christopher Kidd⁵ and Christa D Peters-Lidard⁷, (1)CISESS/ESSIC, University of Maryland, College PARK, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, Cooperative Insititute for Satellite Earth System Studies, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College PARK, MD, United States, (6)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (7)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Erica Griffin^1,2, Yixin Berry Wen^1,2, Terry James Schuur^1,2, Alexander Ryzhkov^1,2, John Krause^1,2 and Yang Hong³, (1)Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, (2)NOAA/OAR/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK, United States, (3)School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States

Vesta Afzali Gorooh, University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, Phu Nguyen, UC Irvine, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, Ata Akbari Asanjan, NASA Ames Research Center, USRA, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Kuo-lin Hsu, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and Soroosh Sorooshian, Univ California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States

Ye Mu¹, Trent W Biggs¹ and Samuel Shanpu Shen², (1)San Diego State University, Department of Geography, San Diego, CA, United States, (2)San Diego State University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego, CA, United States

Mónica Estébanez Camarena¹, Nick Van De Giesen² and Marie-Claire Ten Veldhuis¹, (1)Delft University of Technology, Water Management, Delft, Netherlands, (2)Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft, Netherlands