Vladimir Georgievskiy¹, Nina Speranskaya¹, Tatiana Fuksova¹, *Pavel Groisman² (1.State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2.Hydrology Science and Services Corporation, Asheville, North Carolina, USA)

*Olga Bulygina^1,2, Nataliy Korshunova¹, Tatyana Dementyeva¹, Pavel Groisman^3,2 (1.All-Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information—World Data Centre, 6 Koroleva St., Obninsk, Kaluga Oblast’, 249035, The Russian Federation, 2.P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, 36 Nakhimovsky Ave., Moscow, 117997, The Russian Federation , 3.UCAR at NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, 151 Patton Avenue, Asheville, North Carolina 28801, USA)

*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)

*Erwan Monier¹, David Kicklighter², Andrei Sokolov¹, Qianlai Zhuang³, Irina Sokolik⁵, Richard Lawford⁶, Martin Kappas⁷, Sergey Paltsev¹, Pavel Groisman⁴ (1.Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2.Marine Biological Laboratory, 3.Purdue University, 4.National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 5.Georgia Institute of Technology, 6.Morgan State University, 7.Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

*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)

Vladimir Georgievskiy¹, Nina Speranskaya¹, Tatiana Fuksova¹, *Pavel Groisman² (1.State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2.Hydrology Science and Services Corporation, Asheville, North Carolina, USA)

*Olga Bulygina^1,2, Nataliy Korshunova¹, Tatyana Dementyeva¹, Pavel Groisman^3,2 (1.All-Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information—World Data Centre, 6 Koroleva St., Obninsk, Kaluga Oblast’, 249035, The Russian Federation, 2.P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, 36 Nakhimovsky Ave., Moscow, 117997, The Russian Federation , 3.UCAR at NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, 151 Patton Avenue, Asheville, North Carolina 28801, USA)

*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)