*Camelia Eliza Telteu¹, Hannes Müller Schmied ^1,2, Wim Thiery ³, Guoyong Leng ⁴, Peter Burek ⁵, Xingcai Liu ⁴, Julien Eric Stanislas Boulange ⁶, Lauren Paige Seaby⁷, Manolis Grillakis⁸, Yusuke Satoh ⁶, Oldrich Rakovec⁹, Tobias Stacke¹⁰, Jinfeng Chang^11,5, Niko Wanders¹², Harsh Lovekumar Shah ¹³, Ganquan Mao¹⁴, Aristeidis Koutroulis ⁸, Yadu Pokhrel ¹⁵, Luis Samaniego ⁹, Yoshihide Wada ⁵, Vimal Mishra ¹³, Junguo Liu ¹⁴, Petra Döll ^1,2, Simon Newland Gosling ¹⁶, Jacob Schewe ⁷, Fang Zhao ¹⁷ (1.Institute of Physical Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2.Senckenberg Leibniz Biodiversity and Climate Research Center, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 3.Department of Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, 4.Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 5.International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria , 6.National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan , 7.Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany , 8.School of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece , 9.Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany , 10.Institute of Coastal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Geesthacht, Germany, 11.Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, 12.Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 13.Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Palaj, Gandhinagar, India, 14.School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China , 15.Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America , 16.School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 17.School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China)