Towards constraining hydrologic models using satellite retrieved soil moisture

Matthias Zink, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Juliane Mai, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, Oldrich Rakovec, Czech University of Life Sciences, Water Resources and Environmental Modelling, Prague, Czech Republic, Martin Schrön, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Department of Monitoring and Exploration Technologies, Leipzig, Germany, Rohini Kumar, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany, Computational Hydrosystems, Leipzig, Germany, David Schaefer, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany and Luis Samaniego, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Computation Hydrosystems, Leipzig, Germany