About the Authors

Negin Nazarian

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

nenazarian@gmail.com

Affiliations School of Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Benjamin Bechtel

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bochum Urban Climate Lab, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Gerald Mills

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Geography, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Melissa Anne Hart

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Ariane Middel

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Arts, Media and Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

E. Scott Krayenhoff

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Gaby S. Langendijk

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Climate Adaptation and Disaster Risk Department, Deltares, Delft, The Netherlands

Lei Zhao

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Andy Pitman

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Winston Chow

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations College of Integrative Studies, Singapore Management University, Singapore, Singapore, Urban Institute, Singapore Management University, Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Benjamin Bechtel is a member of the PLOS Climate editorial board.