About the Authors

James E. Cloern

jecloern@usgs .gov

Affiliation U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California, United States of America

Noah Knowles

Affiliation U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California, United States of America

Larry R. Brown

Affiliation U.S. Geological Survey, Sacramento, California, United States of America

Daniel Cayan

Affiliation Climate Research Division, The Scripps Institution of Oceanography, U.S. Geological Survey, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Michael D. Dettinger

Affiliation Climate Research Division, The Scripps Institution of Oceanography, U.S. Geological Survey, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Tara L. Morgan

Affiliation U.S. Geological Survey, Sacramento, California, United States of America

David H. Schoellhamer

Affiliation U.S. Geological Survey, Sacramento, California, United States of America

Mark T. Stacey

Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Mick van der Wegen

Affiliation UNESCO-IHE (Institute for Water Education, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), Delft, the Netherlands

R. Wayne Wagner

Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Alan D. Jassby

Affiliation Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JEC NK LRB DC MDD TLM DHS MTS MvdW RWW ADJ. Performed the experiments: NK LRB DC MDD TLM DHS MTS MvdW RWW. Analyzed the data: JEC NK LRB DC MDD TLM DHS MTS MvdW RWW ADJ. Wrote the paper: JEC NK LRB DC MDD TLM DHS MTS MvdW RWW ADJ.