The Potential for Forecasting Water Cycle Extremes with GRACE

Matthew Rodell1, Benjamin F Zaitchik2, Augusto Getirana3,4, Bailing Li5,6, Sujay V Kumar7, Hiroko K Kato-Beaudoing6,8, Himanshu Save9 and Srinivas V Bettadpur10, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Sciences Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (5)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (6)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (8)NASA GSFC HSL (ESSIC University of Maryland), Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)The University of Texas at Austin, Center for Space Research, Austin, TX, United States, (10)Center for Space Research, Austin, TX, United States