William Kleiber, University of Colorado, Applied Mathematics, Boulder, CO, United States, Álvaro Humberto Ossandón Sr, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Balaji Rajagopalan, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering and CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States and Manuela Irene Brunner, WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Mountain Hydrology and Mass Movements, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

Qian Cao, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Steven A Margulis, UCLA, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, F Martin Ralph, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, CA, United States, Hilary K McMillan, San Diego State University, Department of Geography, San Diego, CA, United States, Forest Cannon, Scripps Institution of Oceanography - Center for Western Weather & Water Extremes, La Jolla, CA, United States, Edwin Sumargo, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Dennis P Lettenmaier, UCLA, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Jakob Zscheischler¹, Olivia Martius¹, Seth Westra², Emanuele Bevacqua³, Colin Raymond⁴, Radley M Horton⁵, Bart van den Hurk⁶, Amir AghaKouchak⁷, Aglae Jezequel⁸, Miguel Mahecha⁹, Douglas Maraun¹⁰, Alexandre Miguel Ramos¹¹, Nina N Ridder¹², Wim Thiery¹³ and Edoardo Vignotto¹⁴, (1)University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, (2)University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia, (3)University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, (6)Deltares, Delft, Netherlands, (7)University of California, Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, (8)École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Champs sur Marne, France, (9)Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany, (10)Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, Brandhofgasse 5 8010 Graz, Austria, (11)Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL), Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, (12)University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (13)Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, (14)University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Vibhuti Bhushan Jha¹, Ashwin Gujrati² and R P Singh¹, (1)Space Applications center, Ahemadabad, India, (2)Space Applications Center, Indian Space Research Organization, Ahmedabad, India

Lu Su¹, Qian Cao¹, Mu Xiao^1,2, David M Mocko³, Michael J Barlage⁴, Dongyue Li⁵, Christa D Peters-Lidard⁶ and Dennis P Lettenmaier⁷, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (3)SAIC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)UCLA, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Shweta Kumari, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Hydearbad, India and Ankit Deshmukh, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Civil Engineering, Hydearbad, India

Ze Jiang, Ashish Sharma and Fiona Johnson, University of New South Wales, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Michael Vera^1,2 and Naresh Devineni¹, (1)CUNY City College, Department of Civil Engineering, New York, NY, United States, (2)CUNY City College of New York, Civil Engineering, New York, NY, United States