1. Caspian Sea Hydrometeorological Research Department, Republican State-Owned Enterprise ‘Kazhydromet’, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2. Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Almaty, Almaty, Kazakhstan
3. Water, Energy and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Technology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
4. Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
5. Department of Meteorology, Russian State Hydrometeorological University, St Petersburg, Russia