About the Authors

Candida F. Dewes

Contributed equally to this work with: Candida F. Dewes, Imtiaz Rangwala

candida.dewes@noaa.gov

Affiliations Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America, Physical Sciences Division, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Interior North Central Climate Science Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Imtiaz Rangwala

Contributed equally to this work with: Candida F. Dewes, Imtiaz Rangwala

Affiliations Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America, Physical Sciences Division, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Interior North Central Climate Science Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Joseph J. Barsugli

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America, Physical Sciences Division, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Interior North Central Climate Science Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Michael T. Hobbins

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America, Physical Sciences Division, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Sanjiv Kumar

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Physical Sciences Division, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CD IR JB MH. Formal analysis: CD. Investigation: CD IR. Methodology: CD IR JB MH SK. Software: CD. Visualization: CD. Writing – original draft: CD IR. Writing – review & editing: CD IR JB MH SK.