Impact of Soil Moisture Assimilation on Land Surface Model Spinup and Coupled Land-Atmosphere Prediction

Joseph A Santanello Jr, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 617, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Sujay V Kumar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, Christa D Peters-Lidard, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Sciences and Exploration Directorate, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Patricia Lawston Parker, Delaware State University, Dover, DE, United States