About the Authors

Anteneh Z. Abiy

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

aabiy001@fiu.edu

Affiliation Department of Earth and Environment, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States of America

Assefa M. Melesse

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Earth and Environment, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States of America, Southeast Environmental Research Center (SERC), Institute of Water & Environment, Florida International University

Wossenu Abtew

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Earth and Environment, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States of America, Water and Environment Consulting, Boynton Beach, FL, United States of America

Dean Whitman

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Earth and Environment, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.