*Pavel Groisman^1,2,3, Herman H Shugart⁴, Garik Gutman⁵, Sergey K Gulev³, Shamil S Maksyutov⁶, Jiaguo Qi⁷ (1.NC State University Research Scholar at NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, North Carolina, USA, 2.Hydrology Science and Services Corporation, Asheville, North Carolina, USA, 3.RAS Institute for Oceanology, Moscow, Russia, 4.University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, 5.NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC USA, 6.National Institute of Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan, 7.Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA)

*Peilei Fan¹, Jiquan Chen¹, Zutao Yang¹, Pavel Groisman², Tatiana Loboda³, Garik Gutman⁴, Alexander Prishchepov⁵, Anna Kavshinina⁶, Jiaguo Qi¹ (1.Michigan State University, USA, 2.National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA, 3.University of Maryland at College Park, 4.National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 5.University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 6.Ural Mountain Nature Reserve , Russia)

*Jiquan Chen¹, Ranjeet John¹, Ginger Allington⁵, Fei Li¹, Changliang Shao¹, Yaoqi Zhang², Daniel G. Brown⁴, Jiaguo Qi¹, Gang Bao⁷, María E Fernández-Giménez³, Amy Hessl⁶, Xiaoping Xin⁸ (1.Michigan State University, 2.Auburn University, 3.Colorado State University, 4.University of Michigan, 5.National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, 6.West Virginia University, 7.Inner Mongolia Normal University, 8.Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences)

*Pavel Groisman^1,2,3, Garik Gutman⁴, Sergey Gulev³, Shamil S Maksyutov⁵, Herman H Shugart⁶, Jiaguo Qi⁷ (1.NC State University Research Scholar at NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, North Carolina, USA, 2.Hydrology Science and Services Corporation, Asheville, North Carolina, USA, 3.RAS Institute for Oceanology, Moscow, Russia, 4.NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA, 5.National Institute of Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan, 6.University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, 7.Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA)