Assimilation of Spatio-Temporal Cosmic-Ray Neutron Data to Improve Hydrological Model Performance

Martin Schrön1, Luis Samaniego2, Rohini Kumar3, Matthias Zink4, Rafael Rosolem5, Oldrich Rakovec6, Gabriele Baroni4, Sascha E Oswald7, Frido Reinstorf8 and Steffen Zacharias4, (1)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Department of Monitoring and Exploration Technologies, Leipzig, Germany, (2)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Computation Hydrosystems, Leipzig, Germany, (3)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany, Computational Hydrosystems, Leipzig, Germany, (4)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, (5)University of Bristol, Civil Engineering, Bristol, United Kingdom, (6)Czech University of Life Sciences, Water Resources and Environmental Modelling, Prague, Czech Republic, (7)University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, Potsdam, Germany, (8)University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal, Water, Environment, Building and Safety, Magdeburg, Germany