Li Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Texas A&M University College Station, Texas, USA
Dan Lindsey National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Jicheng Liu 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
Brian Llamanzares International Research Institute for Climate and Society The Earth Institute, Columbia University Palisades, New York, USA
Valerio Lorini Disaster Risk Management Unit European Commission Joint Research Centre Ispra, Italy
Lifeng Luo Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Feng Ma School of Hydrology and Water Resources Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology Nanjing, China; and Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan, USA
David Marechal Guy Carpenter & Company GmbH Munich, Germany
Patrick Matgen Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology Esch‐sur‐Alzette, Luxembourg
Shanna McClain Earth Sciences Division National Aeronautics and Space Administration Washington, DC, USA
Hamid Moradkhani Center for Complex Hydrosystems Research Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
Mahdi Navari NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Jeffrey C. Neal School of Geographical Sciences University of Bristol Bristol, United Kingdom
Miriam Nielsen International Research Institute for Climate and Society The Earth Institute, Columbia University Palisades, New York, USA
Lace Padilla Department of Psychology Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois, USA
Erin Coughlan de Perez International Research Institute for Climate and Society The Earth Institute, Columbia University Palisades, New York, USA; and Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre The Hague, The Netherlands; and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Christel Prudhomme European Centre for Medium‐range Weather Forecasts Reading, United Kingdom; and Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Wallingford, United Kingdom; and Department of Geography and Environment Loughborough University Loughborough, United Kingdom
Arash Modarresi Rad Department of Computing Boise State University Boise, Idaho, USA
Lauro Rossi CIMA Research Foundation Savona, Italy
Roberto Rudari CIMA Research Foundation Savona, Italy
Mojtaba Sadegh Department of Civil Engineering Boise State University Boise, Idaho, USA
Peter Salamon Disaster Risk Management Unit European Commission Joint Research Centre Ispra, Italy
Chris Sampson Fathom Global Bristol, United Kingdom
Mitchell Schull 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
Guy J.‐P. Schumann School of Geographical Sciences University of Bristol Bristol, United Kingdom; and Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado, USA
Kara Siahaan International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Geneva, Switzerland
Andy Smith Fathom Global Bristol, United Kingdom
Jonathan A. Sullivan School for Environment and Sustainability University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Donglian Sun Department of Geography and Geo‐Information Science George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Qiuhong Tang Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China
Jing Tao Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center University of Maryland College Park, Maryland, USA; and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, California, USA; and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Washington Seattle, Washington, USA
Beth Tellman Cloud to Street New York, New York, USA; and The Earth Institute, Columbia University Palisades, New York, USA
Mark A. Trigg School of Civil Engineering University of Leeds Leeds, United Kingdom
Philip J. Ward Institute for Environmental Studies Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Albrecht Weerts Deltares Delft, The Netherlands; and Wageningen University and Research Centre Wageningen, The Netherlands
Huan Wu School of Atmospheric Sciences Sun Yat‐sen University Guangdong, China; and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Laboratory Guangdong, China; and Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center University of Maryland College Park, Maryland, USA
Dai Yamazaki Institute of Industrial Science The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan
Hongxiang Yan Pacific Northwest National Laboratory U. S. Department of Energy Richland, Washington, USA
Siquan Yang Division of Science and Informatization Ministry of Emergency Management of the People’s Republic of China Beijing, China
Aizhong Ye State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface and Ecological Resources Faculty of Geographical Science Beijing Normal University Beijing, China
Jifu Yin 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
Mahkameh Zarekarizi Center for Complex Hydrosystems Research Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
Xiwu Zhan NOAA NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research College Park, Maryland, USA
Shuai Zhang Department of Geological Sciences University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Fang Zhao Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science (Ministry of Education)School of Geographic Sciences East China Normal University Shanghai, China; andPotsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Potsdam, Germany
Gang Zhao Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Texas A&M University College Station, Texas, USA
Ervin Zsoter European Centre for Medium‐range Weather Forecasts Reading, United Kingdom
PREFACE
The increase in the frequency of drought and flood events due to changes in the global water and energy cycle poses higher risks to human settlements, especially those in floodplains and areas with frequent heat waves and deficit in precipitation,