About the Authors

Caroline S. Juang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

cjuang@alumni.harvard.edu

Affiliations Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States of America, Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States of America

Thomas A. Stanley

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States of America, Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, United States of America

Dalia B. Kirschbaum

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States of America

Competing Interests

We would like to declare that our first author Caroline Juang has a commercial affiliation with Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI). Our first author is primarily affiliated with NASA GSFC but as she is not a civil servant on NASA permanent staff, her funding is managed by SSAI. The funder provided support in the form of salary for author C.S.J., but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specific roles of this author are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section. This affiliation does not alter our adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.