Yohannes Tadesse Yimam, Formation Environmental, LLC, Broomfield, CO, US, Cristine L. S. Morgan, Soil Health Institute, Morrisville, NC, US, Bright Dornblaser, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Austin, TX, Michael Barlage, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, David Gochis, Hydrometeorological Applications Program, NCAR, Boulder, CO, Jonathan Gross, Texas A&M, College Station, TX, Haly L. Neely, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA and Andrea Szilagyi Kishne, Soil & Crop Scinences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX