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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Robert F. Adler NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Amir AghaKouchak Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Department of Earth System Science University of California Irvine Irvine, California, USA
Ali Ahmadalipour Center for Complex Hydrosystems Research Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
Lorenzo Alfieri Disaster Risk Management Unit European Commission Joint Research Centre Ispra, Italy; and CIMA Research Foundation Savona, Italy
Martha Anderson Agricultural Research Service United States Department of Agriculture Beltsville, Maryland, USA
Mark Bernhofen School of Civil Engineering University of Leeds Leeds, United Kingdom
Robert G. Brakenridge Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado, USA
Mélody Braun Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre The Hague, The Netherlands
Weitian Chen Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Climate Change and Natural Disaster Studies, and School of Atmospheric Sciences Sun Yat‐sen University Guangdong, China
Sagy Cohen Department of Geography The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
Simon J. Dadson School of Geography and the Environment Oxford University Oxford, United Kingdom
Francesco Dottori Disaster Risk Management Unit European Commission Joint Research Centre Ispra, Italy
Colin S. Doyle Cloud to Street New York, New York, USA; and Department of Geography and the Environment The University of Texas Austin, Texas, USA
Li Fang NOAA NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research College Park, Maryland, USA; and UMD‐CISESS Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies College Park, Maryland, USA
Min Feng National Tibetan Plateau Data Center Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China; and University of Chinese Academy Sciences Beijing, China
Zachary Flamig Center for Data Intensive Science University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois, USA
John Galantowicz Atmospheric and Environmental Research Inc. Lexington, Massachusetts, USA
Huilin Gao Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Texas A&M University College Station, Texas, USA
Mitchell D. Goldberg National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration College Park, Maryland, USA
Helen Greatrex International Research Institute for Climate and Society The Earth Institute, Columbia University, Palisades, New York, USA
Tom de Groeve Disaster Risk Management Unit European Commission Joint Research Centre Ispra, Italy
Christopher Hain NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, Alabama, USA
Zengchao Hao College of Water Sciences Beijing Normal University Beijing, China
Haixia He National Disaster Reduction Center of China Ministry of Emergency Management of the People’s Republic of China Beijing, China
Feyera A. Hirpa School of Geography and the Environment Oxford University Oxford, United Kingdom
Jannis Hoch Department of Physical Geography Utrecht University Utrecht, The Netherlands; and Deltares Delft, The Netherlands
Laura Hoffman‐Hernandez International Research Institute for Climate and Society The Earth Institute, Columbia University Palisades, New York, USA
Matt Horritt School of Civil Engineering University of Leeds Leeds, United Kingdom
Zequn Huang Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Climate Change and Natural Disaster Studies, and School of Atmospheric Sciences Sun Yat‐sen University Guangdong, China
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