*Jiaguo Qi^1,2, Xiaoping Xin⁴, Dennis Ojima⁵, Pavel Groisman³, Jiquan Chen¹ (1.Center for Global Change & Earth Observations, Michigan State University, 2.Zhejiang University, 3.University Corp. for Atmospheric Research at the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC, USA, 4.Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China, 5.Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO, USA)

*Pavel Groisman^1,4, Xungang Yin², Olga Bulygina^3,4, Irina Partasenok^5,4, Olga Zolina^6,4, Inger Hanssen-Bauer⁷ (1.University Corp. for Atmospheric Research Project Scientist at NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, North Carolina, USA, 2.ERT, Inc. at NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, North Carolina, USA, 3.All-Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information—World Data Centre, Obninsk, The Russian Federation, Obninsk, Russia, 4.RAS P.P. Shirshov Institute for Oceanology, Moscow, The Russian Federation, 5.Republican Hydrometeorological Centre, Minsk, Belarus, 6.Le Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l'environnement, Grenoble, France, 7.Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway)

*Pavel Groisman^1,2,3, Garik Gutman⁴, Sergey Gulev², Shamil Maksyutov⁵, Jiaguo Qi⁶ (1.University Corp. for Atmospheric Research Project Scientist at NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, North Carolina, USA, 2.P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS, Moscow, Russia, 3.Hydrology Science and Services Corporation, Asheville, North Carolina, USA, 4.NASA Headquarters, Washington, District Columbia, USA, 5.National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan, 6.Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA)