*Indishe Prabath Senanayake¹, In-Young Yeo^1,2, Natthachet Tangdamrongsub^3,4, Garry R Willgoose¹, Gregory R Hancock⁵, Tony Wells¹, Bin Fang⁶, Venkataraman Lakshmi⁶, Jeffrey P Walker⁷ (1.School of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia., 2.Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA., 3.Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA., 4.Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA., 5.School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia., 6.School of Earth Ocean and Environment, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29223, United States., 7.Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia.)