About the Authors

Sangchul Lee

Affiliation Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

In-Young Yeo

In-Young.Yeo@newcastle.edu.au

Affiliations Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, School of Engineering, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan NSW, Australia

Ali M. Sadeghi

Affiliation USDA-ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

Gregory W. McCarty

Affiliation USDA-ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

W. Dean Hively

Affiliation USGS, Eastern Geographic Science Center, Reston, Virginia, United States of America

Megan W. Lang

Affiliation Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL I-YY AMS GWM WDH MWL. Performed the experiments: SL. Analyzed the data: SL I-YY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL I-YY. Wrote the paper: SL I-YY AMS GWM WDH MWL.