Land Surface Modeling Applications for Famine Early Warning

James P Verdin, USGS/EROS, Boulder, CO, United States, Christa D Peters-Lidard, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Sciences and Exploration Directorate, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Amy McNally, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Kristi R Arsenault, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrologic Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Shugong Wang, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA-GSFC), Greenbelt, MD, United States, Sujay V Kumar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, Shraddhanand Shukla, University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Chris C Funk, University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Md Shahriar Pervez, USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, Greg M Fall, NOAA/NWS/OWP, Chanhassen, MN, United States and Logan R Karsten, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States