*Kalpana Chaudhari¹, Maria Cerreta², Pasquale De Toro² (1. Shah And Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College; and ISDR , India, 2. The University of Naples Federico II, Italy)

*Furqon Alfahmi Alfahmi¹ (1. Indonesian Agency for Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics)

*Sourabh Bal¹, Andreas Matzarakis^2,3 (1. Department of Physics, Swami Vivekananda Institute of Science & Technology, 2. Research Centre Human Biometeorology, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Stefan-Meier-Str. 4, 79104 , 3. Chair of EEnvironmental Meteorology, Albert-Ludwigs University Freiberg, Werthmannstr. 10, D-79085 Freiberg, Germany)

*Clinton Snr Assah-Adjei¹ (1. Universtity of Education, Winneba -Ghana)

*Muhammad Abdur Rahaman¹ (1. Center for People and Environ)

*Andre Lenouo¹, Torsten Weber², Peter Hoffmann², Gaby S. Langendijk³ (1. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Douala – Cameroon, 2. Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, 20095 Hamburg, Germany, 3. Climate Adaptation and Disaster Risk Department, Deltares, PO Box 177, 2600, MH, Delft, the Netherlands)

*Srinivasa Ramanujam Kannan¹ (1. School of Mechanical Sciences, IIT Bhubaneswar)

*Juan Feng¹ (1. Center for Monsoon System Research, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)

*Muhammad Aslam Mohd Safari^1,2, Tosiyuki Nakaegawa² (1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, 2. Department of Applied Meteorological Research, Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba 305-0052, Japan)

*Prasanna Kanti Ghoshal^1,2, Apurva Padamnabh Joshi¹, Kunal Chakraborty¹ (1. Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Hyderabad, India, 2. Faculty of Ocean Science and Technology, Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies, Kochi, India)

*Kazuto Takemura¹ (1. Japan Meteorological Agency)

*Ying Tian¹ (1. Shandong meteorological observatory)

*Satoru Okajima¹, Kazutoshi Onogi¹ (1. Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo)

*Paska Ajok^2,1 (1. National hydrological services, 2. Ministry of Water and Environment, Uganda)

*Toru Terao¹ (1. Faculty of Education, Kagawa University)

*Eswyn Chen¹, Amanda Maycock¹, Malcolm Roberts², Juliane Schwendike¹ (1. ICAS, University of Leeds, 2. UK Met Office Hadley Centre)

*Chi Zhang¹, Xu Zhang¹, Qiuhong Tang¹, Deliang Chen², Jinchuan Huang³ (1. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 2. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, 3. College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)

*Qun Yu¹ (1. Shandong Meteorological Observatory)

*Lei Song¹ (1. Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS)

*Sylvia Ampadu¹, Nana Ama Browne Klutse³, Patrick Essien², Francis Nkrumah² (1. Sylvia Ampadu, University of Ghana , 2. Patrick Essien, Francis Nkrumah, University of Cape Coast, 3. Nana Ama Browne Klutse, African Institute of Mathematical Sciences, University of Ghana)

*Wenxiu Zhong¹, Yuting Wu¹, Song Yang¹, Tianjiao Ma², Qingyu Cai², Qian Liu¹ (1. Sun Yat-sen University, 2. Chinese Academy of Sciences)

*Younes Dahhane¹, Victor Ongoma¹, Abdessamad Hadri¹ (1. International Water Research Institute, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University)

*Morteza Pakdaman¹, Yashar Falamarzi¹, Ebrahim As'adi Oskouei¹, Zohreh Javanshiri¹ (1. Research Institute of Meteorological and Atmospheric Science (RIMAS), Climate Research Institute (CRI), Mashhad, Iran)